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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
  • Then there was Anthony Volpe going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts, the final embarrassment of a terrible season for the shortstop on both sides of the ball.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This sense of helplessness, embarrassment and utter misery is what so many scam victims report feeling.
    Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The very concept of combining social media with AI assistants caused confusion earlier this year.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When people feel that the dignity of their work is not acknowledged and respected, a sense of humiliation and grievance builds, and the grievances are, in my view, legitimate.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • His misadventure begins, as so many of Robinson’s sketches do, with a humiliation.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Discomfiture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discomfiture. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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