discomfiting 的 2 个定义
- to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- to frustrate the plans of; thwart; foil.
- Archaic. to defeat utterly; rout: The army was discomfited in every battle.
- Archaic. rout; defeat.
discomfiting 近义词
defeat, frustrate; confuse
更多discomfiting例句
- For my own sanity—as morally discomfiting as it is—I'm planning to play along.
- While comparisons are obvious, Ryan's use of the discomfiting capital-T "they" got me thinking: who exactly were "they"?
- Most of the time, subtle cues—a flag, for instance—have a powerful, discomfiting pull on our behavior.
- The GOP debates have already been entertaining, unpredictable, and discomfiting for the candidates.
- The silence that followed this non-committal remark was most discomfiting.
- The idea of more was discomfiting, yet it was possible that this was only the first of a travelling company.
- He attacks the duke's nephew, who was breaking many a lance and sorely discomfiting the Greeks.
- No one being there, the goldsmith went elsewhere in search of his wife, leaving the scholar to a discomfiting solitude.
- Eustace had no difficulty in justifying the customs of Luxeuil, and in discomfiting the violence of his accuser.