What is "discomfit"

Usage examples of "discomfit".

The Federation might be a bit discomfited when it finds out what Aur and his advisers have up their sleeves.

But the hardening brown earth between her toes, that was discomfiting.

Martha, the maid, almost filled the kitchen, but did not seem discomfited, nor, the Norths noted thankfully, handicapped.

He ignored the sensations that attacked him the pressing closeness, the imagined whispers, the discomfiting deadness Snd kept his concentration focused on putting one foot in front of the other.

Again I excused myself, guessing that the discomfited Charles would put all sorts of stories about concerning me, and not wishing to look foolish before a party of grand strangers, no doubt chosen for their skill at this particular form of sport.

This formidable host, the like of which is not to be found in eastern history, and has scarcely been imagined in eastern romance, was discomfited in a great battle, in which the Roman Alexander proved himself an intrepid soldier and a skilful general.

Lanyard did his best with his blandest smile to make amends for having discomfited the prince by getting home later than he had promised to, his good-natured effort was repaid only by a spiteful scowl.

Prudence smiled kindly at the somewhat discomfited Christabel, feeling that she had at least kept up her own end.

Weevle and Mr. Guppy look at each other, the former as having relinquished the whole affair, the latter with a discomfited countenance as having entertained some lingering expectations yet.

Wuher noticed amidst the urban burblings a larger number of speeders than usual, as well as a discomfiting percentage of stormtroopers.

Apparently issues were complicated by the fact that Madame Psychosis emerged from puberty as an almost freakishly beautiful young woman, especially in a part of the United States where poor nutrition and indifference to dentition and hygiene made physical beauty an extremely rare and sort of discomfiting condition, one in no way shared by Madame Psychosis's toothless and fireplug-shaped mother, who said not a word as Madame Psychosis's father interdicted everything from brassieres to Pap smears, addressing the nubile Madame Psychosis in progressively puerile baby-talk and continuing to use her childhood diminutive like Pookie or Putti as he attempted to dissuade her from accepting a scholarship to a Boston University whose Film and Film-Cartridge Studies Program was, he apparently maintained, full of quote Nasty Pootem Wooky Barn-Bams, unquote, whatever family-code pejorative this signified.

To stand thus chagrined and discomfitted, on the very point of being bucketed down a dark shaft to the mountain's bowel—to stand thus on the brink of our peril and still be denied by Costard the information we sought, was too infuriating.

Slowly I come to my feet, follow him: the na­tive’s screams have not discomfited me this much and I would rather continue the discussion with Closter, find out, at the least, why he has been put up to this by Stark but the screams are indeed overwhelming, Closter was right in that regard: these are not the ordinary cries with which the native has responded to his circum­stances intermittently for the past several hours but are cries which have instead risen to a real urgency, a stricken terror on which I find myself impaled.

For when I sought worldly adventures and worldly desires, I ever achieved them, and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfited in any quarrel, were it right or wrong.

Speaking half to the First, half to the discomfited sea and the acute sky, she said, "The only thing Daphin did to me was answer questions.