Discomfiture

I'm trying not to enjoy it, but the National Post's discomfiture is something to behold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sir, if this be a sample of that discomfiture with which the honorable gentleman threatened me, commend me to the word discomfiture for the rest of my life. ❋ Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (1903)

The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans. ❋ George Basil Barham (N/A)

The frank smile that told of his lordship's enjoyment of her discomfiture was the last straw. ❋ Robert Ames Bennet (1912)

Whenever the hoax was spoken of, Judge Harvey writhed with personal humiliation, and with anger against the person who had recalled his discomfiture, and with a desire for vengeance against the perpetrator of the swindle. ❋ Leroy Scott (1902)

I recall the discomfiture of a certain well-known philanthropist, since deceased, whose heart beat responsive to other suffering than that of human kind. ❋ Unknown (1890)

His discomfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and not the incorrigibility of his subject. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

In a few minutes the flagstaff was well washed, and the derveesh too, and put to flight in discomfiture. ❋ Unknown (1856)

Koreish, compelled the Abyssinians to a disgraceful retreat: their discomfiture has been adorned with a miraculous flight of birds, who showered down stones on the heads of the infidels; and the deliverance was long commemorated by the aera of the elephant. ❋ Unknown (1206)

a modest expression of "discomfiture" on reading of American authors ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Those actors fled their own comfort zones, living full time in character for at least three months running, much to the discomfiture of their respective spouses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This, even though CJC-Quebec, to its undoubted discomfiture, had to admit that hate crimes against Jews in Quebec have actually been diminishing of late. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And there he continued to do his job, no doubt to the discomfiture of both the government and its wealthy friends in the Alberta oil patch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Three young Aryan hoodlums decided to take on a fit Black man: he showed he could handle himself, to their growing discomfiture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By May 5th, 1941 after a series of engagements fought by mixed British, Palestinian, and native forces in Northern Ethiopia, Wingate mounted on a white charger was escorting Haile Selessie who, frazzled and weary, preferred riding in a Ford convertible into Addis Ababa six years after his discomfiture. ❋ Robert Eisenman (2011)

[Maddie] felt discomfiture towards the [douchebag] that kept [stalking] her. ❋ Jpaschen (2010)