Discomfited

Manuscript, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia; Edgar Allan Poe explains to John Allan that he was "discomfited" when Allan did not visit him at West Point on the latter's visit to the area. ❋ Unknown (1830)

This is the book to lend to your mother, and grandmother, and everyone you know; no one will be offended or discomfited. ❋ Ilana Teitelbaum (2011)

Isaac does what he often does when he feels discomfited; he harrumphs loudly, which seems only to provoke more amusement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't how it is in Australia, but in the U.S. prospective employers would probably be a bit discomfited by the fact skin color is included on the sheet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am a bit embarrassed to admit my unshakeable fondness for the royal family and I'm well aware that any further opinions from me may now be obsolete to some readers, but not remotely discomfited to say that I grieved for Princess Diana. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At times the Chinese leadership has seemed discomfited by the strength of nationalism among the population at large, but there is little doubt that fostering a sense of national pride and strength has its uses for ruling elites in Moscow and Beijing. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

Smart seems to be alternately discomfited by this fact and resentful of Mrs. Barker's prior and legal claim on the man she loves. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates. ❋ David Isenberg (2011)

I swear that she was much amused to find me so discomfited, deriving some unseemly pleasure from my discomfort. ❋ Stringmonkey (2009)

She wielded power shrewdly and easily, making her that rarest of things: a woman who — working from an original script — discomfited the very male precincts of traditional authority. ❋ Stacy Schiff (2010)

Before I had children, I was deeply discomfited by the idea of breastfeeding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Their eyes also meet the gaze of the viewer, making him a discomfited witness. ❋ Richard Holledge (2011)

If you're going to be discomfited, harangued and quite possibly even dragged onto the stage, let it be by someone as scathingly mischievous as Young Jean Lee. ❋ Peter Marks (2010)

Though I tried not to be too socially inappropriate, I must have discomfited a lot of people. ❋ Unknown (2010)