discomfits

One thing we usually take for granted here in this 235-year-old republic is that we can say what we want to say and write what we want to write, even if it discomfits the powerful.

Battle rhythm Joel Achenbach 2011

Hart tried his best to shield me from the attention it discomfits him to have me looked at, but I did not mind their affection.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

Barbara Kelley What discomfits him is the similarities in the policy choices that accompanied both delayed recoveries.

The Disappearing Recovery Daniel Henninger 2011

Hart tried his best to shield me from the attention it discomfits him to have me looked at, but I did not mind their affection.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

This is a question that discomfits the White House, as Vice President Joe Biden admitted, since the administration bailed out the banks without reforming them.

Robert L. Borosage: Whose Side Are You On: The Moral Clarity of Occupy Wall Street Robert L. Borosage 2011

This transparently insulates the wealthy Mr. Romney from attack, but the ploy discomfits and annoys his natural base.

A House Divided Daniel Henninger 2012

It may want a proxy that discomfits its neighbors and makes South Korea and Japan wonder if they can trust the U.S. defense umbrella.

Pyongyang 2010

But after eight long years of treacherous war, constitutional abuse, and political bullshit, not even the peace biggies can get beyond their various organizational turfs and actually unite to suffer the inconveniences, discomfits and risks to do this.

Government Prostitution Must be Stopped 2009

Humanitarianism is only a factor when some catastrophe discomfits those into whose sitting rooms it is beamed by the media.

Simon Jenkins: Dictators and Disasters 2008

The text of pleasure, he says, submits to and offers comfortable reading; the text of bliss, on the other hand, discomfits.

Here Be Post-Modern Muppets | Her Bad Mother 2006