Sentences with discomfit
dis·com·fit
D d - He will be particularly discomfited by the minister's dismissal of his plan. [be VERB-ed]
- To be discomfited by a question.
- She succeeded in discomfiting him even further.
- The poor boy was clearly discomfited, but we can never resist a mystery, so he gulped out an answer.
- The army was discomfited in every battle.
- Her green eyes danced with laughter as she discomfited her brother.
- 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.
- The overused phrase ‘politically correct’ is usually code for something newish that discomfits the writer.
- This will spare you the discomfiture of having to discuss the realities of sex before your daughter is intellectually and emotionally ready to understand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Actions like these would threaten businesses and discomfit drivers.
- Beatrice's apology was more gracious, and she was visibly discomfited by her father's manner.
- More often, he uses his talents to discomfit people who deserve it, deflating the pretentious and humbling the arrogant.
- 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.
- Scenes will discomfit you, partly because the dialogue is not quite up to the mark in his quest for black humour.
- 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.
- It's a nifty device too, because it reminds you of the show's discomfiting ambiguity.
- Well, he's just made it clear that you've succeeded in discomfiting him and his crew.
- It was like a whole different world here; I was suddenly discomfited by my family's humble home.
- My students were not at all puzzled by this, although they were discomfited that their parents were paying six figures for such an education.
- 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.
- Official British vexation is familiar to other Western European countries where dissident exiles also discomfit strategic relationships.