Voorbeelden van discomfit

• A singular beginning of the universe is not ipso facto unphysical or unscientific, though it may be discomfiting.

• This was the source of the stock owners' obligation to avoid discomfiting passengers.

• They are unafraid to confront us with the discomfiting consequences of methodological problems.

• When there is variance among the subjects' backgrounds, it is sometimes related to age at arrival in discomfiting ways.

• But the result is a discomfiting conflict of convictions in the novel.

• Nevertheless, because the satisfaction of seeing knaves discomfited is psychologically reinforcing, this instrumental value is part of the explanation of why in fact he has it.

• Such firms are unlikely to take a political line that would discomfit their members.

• That is what discomfits householders.