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Disambiguate derives from dis- + ambigu(ous) + -ate in the mid-20th
century Discomfit Comfit Not an antonym.
Comfit (noun) is a
candy comprising a sugar-coated...
- It is
becoming increasingly apparent that
President Batista intends to
discomfit the
incoming Administration in
every way possible,
particularly financially...
- on G.I.
rights and issues. The end of her
presentation was met with a
discomfiting silence until Beat poet
Gregory Corso staggered onto the stage, drunk...
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Powhatan what was
yours would be his, and he the like to you." She then
discomfited him by
calling him "father,"
explaining that
Smith had
called Powhatan...
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estate and
firing his
employee who
remonstrates with him.
Firth is then
discomfited by the
arrival of a new neighbour, who is his
former mistress. His house...
- no more
planning for
world peace or
liberal treatment of Germany, nor
discomfit with
aggressive and
authoritarian measures of
state power. More deadly...
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building networks of propagandists,
spies and
saboteurs to har**** and
discomfit the enemy. Later, the
Resistance was more
formally referred to as the...
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certainly strangled giggles: at the pet chimp's
midnight funeral, at Joe's
discomfited acquiescence to the role of gigolo; at Norma's Mack Sennett-style "entertainments"...
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Where the tune is
familiar and the end emphatic—lovers united,
villains discomfited,
intrigues exposed—as it is in most
Victorian fiction, we can scarcely...
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interrogation and
storms out
after being put on leave,
while Carla is
discomfited by the prin****l's
suggestion to get the
police involved, preferring...
