discomfiture
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Michel Barnier, who negotiated the terms of Brexit on behalf of the EU, said he took no pleasure in Britain’s discomfiture.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022
There was much cheering in Pakistan over India's discomfiture at the turn of events, said Raza Ahmad Rumi, a political commentator, who teaches at Ithaca College in New York.
From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021
The wind picked up, blowing so fiercely it prevented Vardon from lighting his pipe, and Nicklaus, detecting his discomfiture, began playing more boldly.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 20, 2019
That pays off superbly as the air thins, and the surrealism of the terrain, the hallucinatory wanderings of oxygen-robbed brains and the discomfiture of sapped bodies converge cinematically.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2018
When Ben returned the other players grinned at his obvious discomfiture at his father’s intrusion into the forbidden realm of the pre-game locker room.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing discomfiture
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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