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Disambiguate derives from dis- + ambigu(ous) + -ate in the mid-20th
century Discomfit Comfit Not an antonym.
Comfit (noun) is a
candy comprising a sugar-coated...
- It is
becoming increasingly apparent that
President Batista intends to
discomfit the
incoming Administration in
every way possible,
particularly financially...
- no more
planning for
world peace or
liberal treatment of Germany, nor
discomfit with
aggressive and
authoritarian measures of
state power. More deadly...
- on G.I.
rights and issues. The end of her
presentation was met with a
discomfiting silence until Beat poet
Gregory Corso staggered onto the stage, drunk...
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helped build networks of propagandists,
spies and
saboteurs to har**** and
discomfit the occupiers. Eventually,
leaders of all of
these separate and fragmented...
- Reed had
Morrison inform Cale of his firing.
Morrison and
Tucker were
discomfited by Reed's
tactics but
remained in the band. Cale's
replacement was Boston-based...
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building networks of propagandists,
spies and
saboteurs to har**** and
discomfit the enemy. Later, the
Resistance was more
formally referred to as the...
- commentators, and The New York
Times described it as "what may be the most
discomfiting moment in U.S.
history in a half-century or more" for
American Jews....
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estate and
firing his
employee who
remonstrates with him.
Firth is then
discomfited by the
arrival of a new neighbour, who is his
former mistress. His house...
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Where the tune is
familiar and the end emphatic—lovers united,
villains discomfited,
intrigues exposed—as it is in most
Victorian fiction, we can scarcely...
