discomfit

/dɪskˈɒmfɪt/

/dɪskˈɑːmfɪt/

[verb]

to discomfit

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to make someone feel uneasy, embarrassed, or anxious

synonyms : discompose

disconcert

untune

upset

Examples

1. He could see that he had unsettled them, discomfited them by elevating the separation of powers above the Bill of Rights.

2. In America we have the discomfiting origin myth of the superiority of the white Christian European, embodied, for example, in the concept of manifest destiny.

3. However, in its discomfit, if you really think in a small number of states, while I enjoy you have a big Rangin in big databases and on case smaller number of particles.

4. But as I've said I think already and probably more than once in the last two weeks, the turn to religion discomfits the mainstreams of economic, political and social science, in that it calls into question the perceived links between modernisation and secularisation, and the assumption that lies over that that in this link, in this connections, lies the pathway to social progress.