All 3 Uses of
discomfit
in
The House of Mirth
- But, after having let herself be surprised in a falsehood, it was doubly stupid to snub the witness of her discomfiture.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Stepney, since his marriage, had thickened and grown prudish, as the Van Osburgh husbands were apt to do; but his wife, to his surprise and discomfiture, had developed an earth-shaking fastness of gait which left him trailing breathlessly in her wake.†
Chpt 2.1
- Rosedale, reddening to the roots of his glossy hair, received this announcement with a recoil which carried him to his feet, where he halted before her in an attitude of almost comic discomfiture.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(discomfit) cause someone to lose composure or be embarrassed