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Recent Examples of discomfiture The actor enhances his character’s long inner monologues with his eloquent ice-blue eyes, which can convey emotions ranging from disdain and discomfiture to despair and devotion. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 May 2025 Dolan’s discomfiture is understandable, as cord-cutting was already doing a number on the legacy RSN model well before the NBA began beefing up its national TV slate at the expense of the local sports channels. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 May 2025 Everywhere, Ryback says, the cartoonists and editorialists delighted in Hitler’s discomfiture. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 Back in the States, Frankie suffers from terrifying episodes of PTSD, from society’s refusal to believe that women served in the conflict and from her own parents’ discomfiture over her service. Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024 Kedar is sung after eight o’clock in the evening, and to sing it at twilight, at six o’clock, would create slight discomfiture. Amit Chaudhuri, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discomfiture
Noun
  • There are more costs — to say nothing of further public embarrassment — to consider.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • During reunion weekend, former editors and writers also like to see their youthful work through a lens of nostalgia, (sometimes) embarrassment, and joy.
    Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But this caused even more confusion.
    Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But, investigators found there was too much confusion over the interpretation of the rule.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The American team was in danger of complete humiliation, but on Sunday the US golfers managed to recover and almost pulled off what would have been arguably the greatest comeback in sports.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Podcast host Sinek jokingly asked if that was the price of humiliation.
    Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Discomfiture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discomfiture. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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