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Discomfit   Listen
adjective
Discomfit  adj.  Discomfited; overthrown. (Obs.)





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"Discomfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Government?—beginning with an alderman and running through all the branches of the Legislature. (A voice: 'From a tailor up.') Some gentleman says I have been a tailor. (Tremendous applause.) Now that did not discomfit me in the least; for when I used to be a tailor I had the reputation of being a good one and of making close fits (great laughter); always punctual with my customers and always did good work. (A voice: 'No patchwork.') No: I do not want ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine


Words linked to "Discomfit" :   anguish, discompose, kindle, elicit, provoke, hurt, pain, bewilder, evoke, discomfiture, discombobulate, arouse, fire, upset, bemuse, dissolve, enervate, disconcert


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