Beispiele aus Textkorpus für Discomfit
1. I’m dying to discomfit him with searching questions.
2. If you want to discomfit a biologist, ask him how life began.
3. In a week–long hearing, the five law lords will not be asked to decide whether the war was lawful, but the arguments will come close enough to discomfit the government.
4. They believe this would discomfit PASOK as it would deny Socialist leader George Papandreou the opportunity to respond to Karamanlis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF). Karamanlis is due to deliver his keynote policy speech on the opening weekend of the fair (September 7–'). According to tradition, the leader of the opposition speaks at TIF the following weekend.
5. A flagship reform is neutered to appease Labour rebels, some of whom vote against it anyway to spite their leader, some of whom vote in favour so as not to strengthen the hand of the Tories, who, meanwhile, back the government so as to discomfit the Prime Minister.