discomfort
Example Sentences
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Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon
In his memo to employees on Feb. 13, Wasserman said he was “deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort.”
For much of the last decade, Mustaine has experienced significant discomfort since the cartilage in the tips of his fingers has worn away from decades of frenzied playing, causing the bones to scrape together.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet Polyakov determinedly strutted around for reporters and masked any discomfort with a grin.
Americans increasingly treat discomfort as harm, struggle as injury, and resilience as something to be explained away rather than cultivated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
