All 7 Uses of
discomfit
in
David Copperfield
- I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.†
Chpt 4-6
- It was Traddles; whom Mr. Mell instantly discomfited by bidding him hold his tongue.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Miss Murdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend: Mr. Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, and opens his mouth no more.†
Chpt 7-9
- …provision for all my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought…†
Chpt 22-24
- My poor little wife was in such affliction when she thought I should be annoyed, and in such a state of joy when she found I was not, that the discomfiture I had subdued, very soon vanished, and we passed a happy evening; Dora sitting with her arm on my chair while Traddles and I discussed a glass of wine, and taking every opportunity of whispering in my ear that it was so good of me not to be a cruel, cross old boy.†
Chpt 43-45
- 'Agnes,' said I. As we had arranged to say nothing at first, my aunt was not a little discomfited.†
Chpt 61-62
- Much to the discomfiture of Mr. Dick, who knew this to be a bad symptom.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(discomfit) cause someone to lose composure or be embarrassed