How to Use discomfit in a Sentence

discomfit

verb
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  • The cost of not doing so can be discomfiting or painful.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Think of the 300-style bloodbaths, the discomfiting opening of Watchmen.
    — Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Trump is not the only one discomfited by the idea of Tubman on our currency.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 18 June 2019
  • It may also be seen as a way to discomfit the U.S. and serve as a bargaining chip to dissuade the U.S. from building missile defenses.
    — Michael Peck, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But in these packages, and in live broadcasts, the editing is meticulous, omitting anything that might discomfit the N.F.L.’s brass and team owners.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Learning that old habits must make way for new ones is usually discomfiting.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • In one of the game's discomfiting vignettes, Martin visits Daniel's grave as he is cremated.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The results can be discomfiting, as when the camera shows us two characters sitting in a parking lot through a bank window, with a teller noodling around in the foreground.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The only senators who may be discomfited by the choice of Kavanaugh are Democrats in tough re-election races, most of whom won their seats after he was last confirmed by the Senate.
    — Jonathan Allen /, NBC News, 10 July 2018
  • An equally discomfiting element of the later books is what happens to Meg.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The airing of such personal matters in the cold setting of a federal courthouse was discomfiting at times.
    — Jean Marbella, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Eggers, of course, means to use his celebrity platform to give a leg up to a worthy unknown, which is commendable but faintly discomfiting.
    — Michael Lindgren, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Toby Jones is Mason, the company cook who manages to come up with comfort food that may be coming from discomfiting sources.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • While Zuckerberg’s intentions may have been well-placed, the video makes for some discomfiting scenes especially given the grim state of affairs on the island.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Trump's comments also discomfited many in the United States.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2017
  • Trump’s comments also discomfited many in the United States.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • Presumably, Tunisians are as discomfited by insects to the same degree as English people are.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • Down is so revered — and why the combination of rabbits and perpetual dread is so discomfiting.
    — Aja Romano, Vox, 30 Dec. 2018
  • But at the same time that the performance was dazzling, there was also something a little discomfiting about the not-so-subtly-sexual gyrations, even among the youngest girls.
    — Kate Cunningham, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Beautifully shot in an aspect ratio that makes the image square (as opposed to the usual rectangle), the film is at first discomfiting.
    — Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • Mr Johnston’s creations are for the most part discomfiting, funny and idiosyncratic.
    — D.b., The Economist, 29 July 2019
  • What is an audience to make of these discomfiting encounters?
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Rivkin spends a significant amount of time noting the discomfiting elision and erasure of Twombly’s sexuality in the many catalogues and chronologies of his work.
    — Andrew Martin, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Their effect is not merely to comfort his ego but permanently to discomfit our democracy.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2017
  • An ally was discomfited and yanked around for a couple of months before, ultimately, getting its defense funding.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But, in my own experience, they were dwarfed in number by those who were confused or afraid or discomfited or ignorant or rigid or merely extremely devout.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Sep. 2017
  • On Scorpion, Drake confirmed the rumor and rapped several discomfiting lines about having fathered a child with the former adult film actor Sophie Brussaux.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 30 July 2019
  • Yet Murphy's camp sensibility is only one part of the story, especially because the Nip/Tuck creator's brand of camp is so discomfiting.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Esquire, 23 May 2016
  • Daringly written mostly without gender pronouns, the poems discomfit the reader in the best possible way.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Lange endured a fractious relationship with Stryker, who seemed deeply discomfited by a strong-minded woman.
    — Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020

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