(v. t.) To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
(v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
(a.) Discomfited; overthrown.
(n.) Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(2) (Of course, she was also perfectly aware of the feminist content, what it said about the disgusted-attracted-contemptuous male gaze, but she preferred the art to ask the questions, discomfit, not preach.)
(3) It has been just over two decades since genocide was last perpetrated on European soil, a discomfiting memory that has been largely buried in a continent now intent on stopping the arrival of escapees from more recent mass murder.
(4) In that discomfiting political situation, the party’s instinct is to fall back on the NHS.
(5) Cameron looked discomfited.” It fell to William Hague to defend the prime minister in the spin room.
(6) On 16 March 2012, the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge released two discomfiting documents from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation.
(7) ISS said it was understandable that Shell investors would feel “discomfited” by the significant volatility in global crude prices but added: “It is worth recognising, however, that the spot price today may be of very little value in assessing the strategic opportunity of a transaction whose benefits will be realised over decades.
(8) Its high-profile role fighting Isis in Iraq, Assad’s retention of control in Syria with the help of its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, and the Houthi rebel takeover in Yemen have all been deeply discomfiting for the Saudis.
(9) Just as Blatter was crushed by the banner headlines in his native Switzerland when the FBI swooped, so Platini will have been most discomfited by the front pages in a France.
(10) It was one of the tricks of Hoffman's elegantly cruel performance that when Freddie met his bloody end, the audience was likely to feel relieved and complicit; he was such a doggedly discomfiting presence, it was clear he could be stilled only by death.
(11) Most people would be discomfited to learn how detailed a reconstruction of their lives their mobile phone operator could produce if required – right down to a pretty good guess at when they have been speeding in their cars.
(12) For politicians, it can be “too discomfiting” to accept that contemporary culture is a significant contributor to the problem of emerging extremist views.
(13) Now that the eruption has taken place, we blunder in with our prescriptions on democracy, only mildly discomfited by the amount of our hardware that has facilitated the long history of oppression.
(14) In the UK, we are still slightly discomfited by the idea of baring all in a confessional essay, partly, one presumes, because we are restrained by a sort of cultural prudishness, but also because we do not wish to appear self-indulgent.
(15) Later, her memory of it would be a blur that left her with the discomfiting sense that, at least in some people's minds, the medicines were being given "for the greater good", to get the exhausted, frightened staff out more quickly, as there were too many patients who were immobile.
(16) His collaborations with Peter Gabriel reflected Gabriel's restless, discomfiting aesthetic just as well as the Floyd designs had chimed with their music: the artwork for his self-titled third solo album (aka Melt), for example, consisted of a single shot of Gabriel's face, apparently melting off his skull , something achieved by the simple expedient of smearing a still-developing Polaroid (a technique later known as Krimsography).
(17) There will be laughs, Shanbag emphasises – but Arpana will not shirk the unsettling side of All's Well , one of Shakespeare's most discomfiting plays , the ostensibly comic plot of which (a woman pursues the man she wants so doggedly that she ends up tricking him into bed) is at odds with its riddling, uncertain tone.
(18) The people who describe human beings in this way often have scores of pictures, including images obviously taken without consent that discomfited the subject.
(19) Those two dissenting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), Rachel Brand and Elisebeth Collins Cook, both lawyers in the George W Bush administration, did not endorse bulk metadata collection so much as they were discomfited by the scope of their colleagues’ castigation of its legality, propriety and utility.
(20) But Arron is probably at his most discomfiting on the gathering darkness of Europe’s economics.
Disquiet
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
(n.) Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.
(v. t.) To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(2) However not until then can a fair handicap scale be developed for workers who develop this disquieting symptom as a result of their occupation.
(3) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
(4) Green groups condemn Glencore involvement in Garden Bridge project Read more Meanwhile, disquiet over the bridge’s environmental credentials is gathering momentum.
(5) Uefa has said it is open to proposals about the future of the competition, amid disquiet from clubs outside England about the spending power of Premier League clubs in the wake of their £8.3bn TV deal, but is expected to strongly resist any move to propose qualification should be on anything other than merit.
(6) In recent months several employers have distanced themselves from the growing disquiet at the overuse of contracts that offer no guarantee of work by offering workers full-time contracts.
(7) People eagerly accept such evidence-free claims "because the alternative mean[s] confronting outright mendacity from otherwise respected authorities, trading the calm of certainty for the disquiet of doubt".
(8) Following United's dismal 2-0 Champions League defeat at Oympiakos on Tuesday, Van Persie signalled his disquiet by complaining that his team-mates were taking up positions he wanted to occupy.
(9) The meeting at Tamarron illustrated the multiplicity of molecular changes found in breast cancer and concluded with the disquieting sense that, so far, there is no simple unifying molecular model to explain the etiology of the disease.
(10) Photograph: Guillaume Bression for the Guardian It is testament to the disquiet the protests have caused that Abe appears determined to pass the bills by Friday, ahead of five straight days of public holidays that could bring even bigger crowds out on the streets.
(11) Physically we need to give them that introduction but they are close to making the squad for the weekend.” Gareth Barry has urged fans to be patient amid growing disquiet over Everton’s lack of transfer business.
(12) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
(13) His view represents more widespread disquiet within the Labour party about the leadership’s decision to accept May’s plan to leave the single market, but then attempt to replicate its attributes in a trade deal.
(14) It is also no coincidence the perception of one of the finest teams of all time has shifted during what, by Messi's standards, has been a disquieting campaign on and off the pitch for the Argentina international.
(15) Multiple synonymous nomenclature used to describe the histopathology of these tumors is disquieting and requires clarification.
(16) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(17) The publication of Final Exit resulted in a public response that was exuberant, largely sympathetic and, to many within hospice, disquieting.
(18) Burzan's comments reflect deep disquiet within Montenegro over the future direction for Kostunica over issues such as Montenegro and Kosovo, with some Montenegrins privately expressing deep disquiet.
(19) There will remain much disquiet about the inclusion of Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia in the agreement.
(20) This situation initially appeared to cause some disquiet to my hosts, though this later gave way to a more relaxed attitude with the sentiment that Genevan lawyers would be discreet, something that I did nothing to discourage.” On clinching arrangements in London, the bank manager wrote: “We subsequently repaired to the Ritz, for a very enjoyable lunch.” Humphreys told the Guardian his father eventually had to repay about $224,000 (£147,000) for evading tax due to the UK.