How To Use Discomfit In A Sentence

In a few minutes the flagstaff was well washed, and the derveesh too, and put to flight in discomfiture. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic. Gryll Grange
The frank smile that told of his lordship's enjoyment of her discomfiture was the last straw. Out of the Primitive
The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans. Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.
Morgan with an expression of insolence such as might well warrant the belief that he held feud with all grangers and made their discomfiture, dislodgment, and extermination the chief business of his life. Trail's End

Actions like these would threaten businesses and discomfit drivers.
He will be particularly discomfited by the minister's dismissal of his plan.
Her remark that she could always have stayed home and made cookies has discomfited Republicans, not least Barbara Bush.
Standard Big Bang cosmogeny does therefore seem to have those metaphysical implications which some have found so discomfiting.
Today, many walkers claim, good-quality boots should cause you no more discomfit than well-fitted trainers. The Sun
The opposition leader has regularly discomfited him in parliament.
The opposition leader has regularly discomfited him in parliament.
If I get discomfitted – beyond the mild maternal discomfort at the prospect of Wonderbaby exposing herself under inappropriate circumstances – it is because I have forgotten the joys – those simple, natural joys – of the body as simply body. Where Dora Don’t Go | Her Bad Mother
Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. Saints, censors and satire
Iott's past involvement in Nazi re-enactments, first reported by The Atlantic, may well constitute the largest discomfiture for the Republican Party in a cycle in which a number of candidates have done or said discomforting things. Eric Cantor Seeks Distance From Rich Iott, GOP Candidate Who Dressed In Nazi Garb
Beatrice's apology was more gracious, and she was visibly discomfited by her father's manner.
Often the result has been to create a discomfiting aura that makes the show difficult for theater-goers who just want to have a good time are there any of those any more? Howard Kissel: Another 'Follies'
Football brings good days and bad days, days when your heart sings with the disbelief of achieving what seemed impossible and days when your ears ring with the discomfiture of loss.
It was a strange, discomfiting and disorientating landscape.
He was discomfited by her silence.
Meanwhile the wives and children of these belligerents would have starved had it not been for the datto, who, notwithstanding the difference in their faith, looked after them all, until the discomfited warriors returned to more peaceful pursuits. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
Now he was discomfited again; he wanted some explanations for these mysteries, which multiplied every time he turned round. COLDHEART CANYON
She turned away to hide her discomfiture.
Now he was discomfited again; he wanted some explanations for these mysteries, which multiplied every time he turned round. COLDHEART CANYON
A sudden sally of the townsmen during the battle chiefly occasioned confusion: Camillus, turning on these with a part of his army, not only drove them within their walls, but on the very same day, after he had discomfited themselves and their auxiliaries, he took the town by scalade. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
His odd, slightly discomfiting palette-a range of hues informed by but not faithful to the colors of the natural world-contributes to a sense of disequilibrium.
Meanwhile the leadership's support of military preparedness discomfited pacifists.
So, in order to maintain any dignity, I have fomented instead my Macchiavellian plot to discomfit and embarrass David Bowie and myself.
He felt the adrenaline rush through him, carrying with it a discomfiting admixture of pleasure and dismay. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Well, he's just made it clear that you've succeeded in discomfiting him and his crew.
It has proven itself right time after time. It has discomfited its critics and it has repeatedly astonished even its pessimistically inclined well-wishers, such as myself.
She was exceedingly discomfited, although she thought she had no reason. SLEEP WHILE I SING
The poor boy was clearly discomfited, but we can never resist a mystery, so he gulped out an answer.
It goes a long way to explain why men who are not in the least sexist feel discomfitted by the presence of women around them, because they do not allow them to be at their most boyish. "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
That is, older people are more likely to be, uh, discomfitted by an African-American president. Eschaton
How often have we refused to go out into the world and do something that leaves a worthwhile memory in its place because we were afraid, or because we were tired or discomfited or otherwise uneager to leave the safety and peace and comfort of our houses, couches, and DVD players? This Weeks DVD Releases
She succeeded in discomfiting him even further.
He may laugh at our discomfiture now, but before long he'll be laughing on the other side of his face.
This will spare you the discomfiture of having to discuss the realities of sex before your daughter is intellectually and emotionally ready to understand.
I wonder if Jay Carney is discomfitted by any of this. Eschaton
So, the next time you feel discomfiture while being inside a building, the source of illness could be the poor design of the structure rather than anything else.
She had not encountered anything like this before, and didn't have a formula to follow to help ease the discomfiture. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
a modest expression of "discomfiture" on reading of American authors Complete Essays
But in the army of my day, any soldier (or indeed discomfited general) who spent too much time twisting about the language of regulations in his own favor was called a guardhouse lawyer. Mark Twain's Reputation
But everywhere he looked for solace, he found people talking in whispers about the things that discomfited him. EVERVILLE
Sir, if this be a sample of that discomfiture with which the honorable gentleman threatened me, commend me to the word discomfiture for the rest of my life. Select Speeches of Daniel Webster
It's surreal, and with a little more tweaking, it could even have been nervy and discomfiting, but it's too detached from the ‘Ring’ mythology to be effective in this film.
He was discomfited by the unexpected questions.Sentence dictionary
The tricky question about his finances discomfited the minister.
Any new wrinkle that retailers can offer to create more good will and turn a discomfited grouser into a gratified shopper's companion makes good sense. A New Sales Incentive
Whenever the hoax was spoken of, Judge Harvey writhed with personal humiliation, and with anger against the person who had recalled his discomfiture, and with a desire for vengeance against the perpetrator of the swindle. No. 13 Washington Square
He may or may not have eluded his pursuers physically, but he continues to surprise and discomfit them.
Crook was feeling decidedly shabby by this time, but luckily Bobby mistook his discomfiture for shyness. STAGE FRIGHT
I recall the discomfiture of a certain well-known philanthropist, since deceased, whose heart beat responsive to other suffering than that of human kind. XXIV. What Has Been Done
He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: ` Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities '; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels
But the lack of historical perspective was discomfiting.
Well then of course they have "discomfiting" fears. NYTimes Paints Rockwell Portrait of Opponents to Health Care Reform
He was clearly taking delight in her discomfiture.
He will be particularly discomfited by the minister's dismissal of his plan.
The motion caused consternation in the shadows, as the beasts hidden there responded to their creator's discomfiture. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
He had known the Great Man at his zenith; he had wrestled with him in the hour of discomfiture; he had preached for his benefit that famous sermon on the text: 'Hide Thy Face from my sins, and blot out all my Iniquities'; he had witnessed the hero's awful progress from Newgate to Tyburn; he had seen him shiver at the nubbing-cheat; he had composed for him a last dying speech, which did not shame the king of thief-takers, and whose sale brought a comfortable profit to the widow. A Book of Scoundrels
Her gaze was suddenly penetrating, and it almost discomfited him.
Philip Roth, another kid from the Weequahic section of Newark where I grew up, was reviled for telling goyim about some of the values held in our 'hood that our clan thought best kept private, so it will come as no surprise, though it is no less discomfiting to recall, that in the four-family houses on the block where I was raised, the word shvartze was not used merely to name a color. Marty Kaplan: "But He's a Muslim!"
Some readers may object to the idea of discomfiting the soldier or embarrassing the creditor. Latest News from Ekklesia
My students were not at all puzzled by this, although they were discomfited that their parents were paying six figures for such an education.
Of the wars against the Saracens and misbelieving men; of the discomfiture of the Romans when they came to take truage of King Arthur; of the strife with the eleven kings and the battle that was ended but never flnished; of the Questing Beast and how King Pellinore and then Sir Palamides followed it; of Balin that gave the dolourous stroke unto King Pellam; of Sir Tor that sought the lady's brachet and by the way overcame two knights and smote off the head of the outrageous caitiff Abelleus, -- of these and many like matters of pith and moment, full of blood and honour, told Sir Lancelot, and the people bad marvel of his words. The Blue Flower
Giuseppe is about to put me up, and then suddenly ducks away, to my immense discomfiture and the undisguised entertainment of the neighbourhood. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
He blushed, discomfited by the five pairs of eyes staring at him, and ruffled his hair.
He was not noticeably discomfited by the request.
Will wanted to do likewise, but felt too discomfited.
'discomfiting' songs like 'Through With Buzz' and 'Change of the Guard' off the ballot. BC Bloggers
At such moments a great sympathy welled up within me, and I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain. Chapter 13
The content and form of the shows tell difficult, discomfiting, and riveting stories.
Though I tried not to be too socially inappropriate, I must have discomfited a lot of people. Letting Go of My Father
Her green eyes danced with laughter as she discomfited her brother.
Because the blanket condemnation of Tracey for tapping out 140 characters into a Twitter box - characters that spelled out something critical of another blogger - amounts to a kind of censoriousness that I find a bit discomfiting. Community Is Hard. Deal With It.
We stand by that: It's kind of discomfiting to hear adults talk so seriously about the sporting exploits of 11 - and 12-year-olds. Warm and Snugly Little League
He was clearly taking delight in her discomfiture.
This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. Squatting on Wall Street
It's a nifty device too, because it reminds you of the show's discomfiting ambiguity.
At length one of them, whom the others called Caspar, retired, and the earl was left with his son Edward, lord Herbert, the only person in the castle who had gone to neither window nor door to delight himself with the discomfiture of the parliamentary commissioners. St. George and St. Michael
Without experiencing discomfiture and setbacks, one can never find truth.
How the riff-raff howled at my discomfiture. The Sun
It's almost as he's the most conscious person around himself of his own Jewishness; he is discomfitted by it, but yet adores tweaking others because of it IOW, same old Woody. The new Woody Allen movie: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Scenes will discomfit you, partly because the dialogue is not quite up to the mark in his quest for black humour.
I am a bit embarrassed to admit my unshakeable fondness for the royal family and I'm well aware that any further opinions from me may now be obsolete to some readers, but not remotely discomfited to say that I grieved for Princess Diana. Victoria Coren: why I shall be up at dawn to watch the royal family in all its bizarre glory
There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation.
His discomfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and not the incorrigibility of his subject. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
A certain Chever also performed sundry singular mathematical feats, such as squaring the circle, a problem which he reduced to the single question, _Construere mundum divinae menti analogum_, and showing that the parabola, the only conic section squared by ancient or modern geometers, could never be quadrated, to the eternal discomfiture and discredit of the shade of Archimedes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
The tricky question about his finances discomfited the minister.
These former slaves, the freed Black men of the Canadian militias, disconcerted and discomfitted The American troops. Larisa Alexandrovna: The Far-Right's Patriotism Problem
For his part, he was coolness and dignity personified and rejected the chance to discomfit his opponent still further by insulting him.
A more clear-sighted perspective on the good in human life and a firmer grasp of how we might work together to attain it seem well worth the discomfiture of reorganizing our professional aims and self-understandings.
Smart seems to be alternately discomfited by this fact and resentful of Mrs. Barker's prior and legal claim on the man she loves. How to Hypnotize Women
I'm trying not to enjoy it, but the National Post's discomfiture is something to behold. Archive 2009-05-01
Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Edgar Allan Poe explains to John Allan that he was "discomfited" when Allan did not visit him at West Point on the latter's visit to the area. Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1830 November 6
It was the only time I've seen Vice publically discomfitted. Edwards Coins New Phrase For Escalation: "The McCain Doctrine"
Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. March « 2009 « Sentence first
Koreish, compelled the Abyssinians to a disgraceful retreat: their discomfiture has been adorned with a miraculous flight of birds, who showered down stones on the heads of the infidels; and the deliverance was long commemorated by the aera of the elephant. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The bassi rilievi which are placed in a spiral line round the shaft commemorate the victories of Antoninus over the Marcomanni and the Quadi, and the miraculous shower of rain which refreshed the Roman soldiers and discomfited their enemies. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
It was like a whole different world here; I was suddenly discomfited by my family's humble home.
Without experiencing discomfiture and setbacks, one can never find truth.
Having thus sketched the history of Perkinism in its days of prosperity; having seen how it sprung into being, and by what means it maintained its influence, it only remains to tell the brief story of its discomfiture and final downfall. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Then, seizing them as if they were, as they were, loaded cannon, he henceforth used them steadily and valiantly in repelling and discomfiting his foe. The Uniter and Liberator of America
Coudreau's head jerked from side to side, discomfited, overemphatic. The Warden
His discomfiture was to prove the difference between the sides when the dramatic finale was played out.
This is the book to lend to your mother, and grandmother, and everyone you know; no one will be offended or discomfited. Ilana Teitelbaum: A Silence Broken: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The while desultory long-distance firing was indulged in by the discomfited foe, the bullets pinging against the hard ground or flying with a sharp "siss" overhead. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force
The opposition leader has regularly discomfited him in parliament.
This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. Squatting on Wall Street
When I doctored your foot?" he finished, rather unchivalrously, chuckling in his delight at her pretty discomfiture. Flower of the North
Their eyes also meet the gaze of the viewer, making him a discomfited witness. Painting the Middle East With Too Broad a Brush?
Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him by Brewer, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses.
What could be kind of discomfiting, is rather sweet, caring and very hot. Undefined
If a politician cannot speak discomfiting truths without being thrown out of office, then we can expect to have more politicians who will tell us comforting lies.
I know the left wing nuts will make comparisons to Bush, but at least he owned his own home (unlike the Clintons) and at least discomfitted as many people as possible during his vacations. Health care ad wars continue
Recently, I've found myself more than a little discomfited by examples of intolerance that seem to be cropping up around me.
And you consider being "disorient"ed to be other than discomfiting? Balkinization
Tarapore and Kapila even had the discomfiture of being fined five penalty points for jumping the starter's gun in the second race.
What an ass I am, he thought, somewhat discomfited.
But they are discomfited by the normalcy of it all.
More often, he uses his talents to discomfit people who deserve it, deflating the pretentious and humbling the arrogant.
As always, Altaru sensed my condition and moved so as to ease the discomfiture of my wound. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
Not only does it oblige us to face the discomfiting reality of death and the uncertainty of resurrection, but it also throws our pieties into confusion by interweaving death with beauty, the elegiac with the sensuous.
Because the blanket condemnation of Tracey for tapping out 140 characters into a Twitter box – characters that spelled out something critical of another blogger – amounts to a kind of censoriousness that I find a bit discomfiting. Community Is Hard. Deal With It. | Her Bad Mother
For when Evelake was in the battle there was a cloth set afore the shield, and when he was in the greatest peril he let put away the cloth, and then his enemies saw a figure of a man on the Cross, wherethrough they all were discomfit. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
_Brute and the said Troians with their capteine Corineus doo associat, they take landing within the dominion of king Goffarus, he raiseth an armie against Brute and his power, but is discomfited: of the citie of Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
I suspect the real reason for the outrage over body scanners and pat-downs is that the majority of Americans are finally experiencing the kind of discomfiting scrutiny that has long been routine for those who are repeatedly profiled and humiliated. On airport security, do we really want to be like Israel?
The overused phrase ‘politically correct’ is usually code for something newish that discomfits the writer.
No, he thought, with a new idea repudiating the old, the only peculiarity was that as a casualty on the battle ground of family he should live so well and so long without having to continually purge himself of memory that could continually discomfit the present with its stench, rubbing its foul wounded body in recidivistic and wanton desire. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
TWO scenes of a discomfitted guy crashing into a waiter carrying a tray of stuuf way up high like NO WAITER EVER DOES. MADE OF HONOR PROB WRITTEN BY A MAN
Some of these organizations caused their opponents serious discomfiture and served notice that the landlords were not going to surrender their rights and privileges without a fight.
He displayed a charm in discomfiture that I always found disarming - as, I suspect, did the majority of the programme's fans.
Tight-lipped, he appeared discomfited by the questions thrown at him, and relied on streams of impenetrable government-speak for his responses.
The second most important person in the country had not yet fully recovered from the electoral shock, but his discomfiture at the party was made worse by his visible loneliness.
Whereupon did William Shakspeare sit mute awhile, and discomfited; then turning toward Sir Thomas, and looking and speaking as one submiss and contrite, he thus appealed unto him: - Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk
With some surprise, even perhaps with some discomfiture, he sees himself -- for he has not wholly cast out the old Adam -- he sees himself as he was that memorable morning, carried, that is, wholly out of his usual wise, ponderate self. Studies in love and in terror
I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates. David Isenberg: PMC und Drang in the Persian Gulf
Secular Americans may be further discomfited to learn that their government's top lawyer is reputed to believe that tabby cats are satanic.
Especially discomfiting in such a dichotomized view of poetry is the assumption that novelty and innovation equate not only with experimentalism but also with liberal politics.
In general I'm a strong believer in a weak form of the EMH but I am often discomfitted by the flip side -- persistant lack of skill. Can you Beat the Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Hicks 'brand of social commentary -- his routine, embedded below, includes barbs on aggressively mindless pop culture figures of the day, cultural attitudes about homosexuality, pro-lifers, and religious symbolism - must have seemed discomfiting so soon after Letterman lost The Tonight Show gig to Jay Leno, and an endless stream of commentary questioned if Letterman's "edgier" - by-comparison approach had a chance to succeed on CBS at the earlier hour. Clusterflock

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