Discomfiture

//dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "discomfiture" (140 found)

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Translations

14 translations across 8 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • объркване noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • смущение noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

German

2 entries
  • Peinlichkeit noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • Unbehagen noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Greek

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  • ντρόπιασμα noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Māori

1 entries
  • hūhi noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Norwegian

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  • uro noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Polish

1 entries
  • zakłopotanie noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Romanian

3 entries
  • jenă noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • stinghereală noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • stânjeneală noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Russian

3 entries
  • замеша́тельство noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • конфу́з noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)
  • смуще́ние noun (a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment)

Sample sentences

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There were influences that tempered the joys of leaf-kicking—some "meanie" was always ready to hide a big rock, or other disagreeable foreign substance, under a particularly inviting bunch of leaves—then watch and giggle at your discomfiture when you came innocently ploughing along!

Source: tatoeba (11632661)

Some of us are concerned because as yet the South shows no penitence. But what exactly do we mean by this? Since down to the close of the war she never confessed any for braving it, the only penitence now left her is that which springs solely from the sense of discomfiture; and since this evidently would be a contrition hypocritical, it would be unworthy in us to demand it.

Source: wiktionary

One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident.

Source: wiktionary

Other countries are not so much angry as avid to exploit the discomfiture of the US or the chaos in the region or both.

Source: wiktionary

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