discomfited

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Discomfited but unsubmitting, the Graphic publishd an editorial.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discomfited by the utterances of such Asian tourists as Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Rogers had Hoffa's validation for travel to North Viet Nam voided on a technicality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Discomfited, the magician flies away as an owl.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

The youth had fallen not, his viewless foes Discomfited, had left the victory Unto the heart that fainted not nor failed, But from the hill-tops its salvation hailed.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

Discomfited and mortified, he turned on big Andrew Pozzo, the leader of the town boys.

From The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French by Foa, Eugenie