discomfit

He had not yet come out to his parents as gay, and worried such accusations might discomfit his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Warhol also embraced camp as a personal style, performing a theatrical effeminacy that equated to a strategic queerness designed to discomfit those among his contemporaries who held him to be "too swish."

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2022

And the spectacle of nonviolent suffering in a just cause had the potential to discomfit witnesses and render violent and intimidating reprisals less effective.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 3, 2021

It’ll discomfit, even if that discomfiture is being given a beauty so naked that you suddenly can’t pretend you don’t have a soul.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2019

His affection for the little man increased mightily, but his respectful attitude promptly changed, and a chance to reprove or discomfit his absurdly rich brother-in-law was one of his most satisfactory diversions.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But in all dealings with Saudi Arabia, Mr. Biden should stand by the principles that Khashoggi so passionately cared for, however much it discomfits the pouty monarch in Riyadh.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

Whatever it meant in the past, and however it discomfits the present, the Aeneid has, alas, always anticipated the future.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

“Little Panic” grips and discomfits in the best way.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2018

They both also happen to be emotionally labile oversharers, a quality that discomfits the taciturn Kumail.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2017

But the remark does not pass unheeded, and a laugh, varying in tone from open guffaw to suppressed titter, further exasperates and discomfits the luckless stumbler, who vows vengeance on his tormentor.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

It felt a bit like being in a group therapy session in which you alone are the primary and discomfited focus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

And, often, getting discomfited slightly helps that process along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

But he was discomfited by the capricious bounces of last month’s US Open at Pinehurst, a rare event where he failed to trouble the leaderboard operatives.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

The result is both thought-provoking and readable, though Willis Aronowitz's frankness has provoked a lot of discomfited responses.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022

When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

But new clubs can lead to unexpected outcomes and, under the pressure of competition, that can become discomfiting.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

It also doesn’t hurt that Corey C. Waters’ 16mm cinematography is so richly textured and easy to fall into, even when what we’re seeing is sometimes extremely discomfiting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

There is, therefore, a discomfiting sense of voyeurism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

I never expected to be someone who hired others to maintain my image, and at first the idea was discomfiting.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama