How to Use discomfiture in a Sentence
discomfiture
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Failure and broken promises are not cause for discomfiture.
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Samar Halarnkar,
Quartz India,
2019-06-24
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But Zeldin’s discomfiture stands out because his party has made him a standard-bearer for its pro-Israel stance.
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Ron Kampeas,
sun-sentinel.com,
2019-08-27
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Excited by the discomfiture of their masters, the peoples of European empires elsewhere in the world licked their lips and awaited the next European war.
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K.n.c.,
The Economist,
2019-07-19
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But just as his inborn discomfiture evolved into a curious advantage, so too did an indomitable authenticity, which is perhaps his most winning quality.
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Allison Glock,
Esquire,
2014-11-01
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Among Dr. Hansen’s colleagues, some of the discomfiture about the new paper stems from his dual roles as a publishing climate scientist and, in recent years, as a political activist.
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Justin Gillis,
New York Times,
2016-03-22
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Modern mathematicians have overcome the Greeks’ discomfiture with irrational numbers (and have discovered, in fact, that there are far more irrational numbers than rational ones).
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Quanta Magazine,
2013-07-09
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Both sides enjoyed the discomfiture of the foreign-policy establishment when Mr. Trump challenged conventional wisdom, and both praised his willingness to pursue a more unilateral course in foreign affairs.
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Walter Russell Mead,
WSJ,
2018-12-23
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