discomfiture

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• We’re reacting to their public personas — and in the case of Mulaney specifically, many of us are expressing discomfiture that he deviated even slightly from the straitlaced nice guy he purported to represent.

• Recent years have seen an increase in private sector health care, to, inevitably, the relief of some and discomfiture of others.

• Hereupon he was caused much embarrassment and discomfiture, for of the three girls, he knew not which one was Irene.

• He even felt a certain enjoyment in the discomfiture of the self-constituted posse of searchers for stolen goods.

• The stranger regarded Hedges attentively, rather to the discomfiture of that functionary, who thought he was doubted.

• The galling part of it was that Aunt Linda knew, and was chuckling, so to speak, over my discomfiture.

• "Then I'll catch it," I said, laughing at his discomfiture, for I knew he loathed stirring porridge.