discomfitted

In general I'm a strong believer in a weak form of the EMH but I am often discomfitted by the flip side -- persistant lack of skill.

Can you Beat the Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I know the left wing nuts will make comparisons to Bush, but at least he owned his own home (unlike the Clintons) and at least discomfitted as many people as possible during his vacations.

Health care ad wars continue 2009

I wonder if Jay Carney is discomfitted by any of this.

Eschaton 2008

That is, older people are more likely to be, uh, discomfitted by an African-American president.

Eschaton 2008

TWO scenes of a discomfitted guy crashing into a waiter carrying a tray of stuuf way up high like NO WAITER EVER DOES.

MADE OF HONOR PROB WRITTEN BY A MAN 2007

It was the only time I've seen Vice publically discomfitted.

Edwards Coins New Phrase For Escalation: "The McCain Doctrine" 2009

It goes a long way to explain why men who are not in the least sexist feel discomfitted by the presence of women around them, because they do not allow them to be at their most boyish.

"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009

If I get discomfitted – beyond the mild maternal discomfort at the prospect of Wonderbaby exposing herself under inappropriate circumstances – it is because I have forgotten the joys – those simple, natural joys – of the body as simply body.

Where Dora Don’t Go | Her Bad Mother 2007

These former slaves, the freed Black men of the Canadian militias, disconcerted and discomfitted The American troops.

Larisa Alexandrovna: The Far-Right's Patriotism Problem 2008

It's almost as he's the most conscious person around himself of his own Jewishness; he is discomfitted by it, but yet adores tweaking others because of it IOW, same old Woody.

The new Woody Allen movie: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." Ann Althouse 2008