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Discomfiting (adj) means making someone feel awkward, embarrassed or unsettled.

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Making someone feel awkward, embarrassed or unsettled.

"Imagination, like memory, can be selective, editing out those details which are painful or discomfiting." — Sam Portaro, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader, 1968 (2007)

"One post features a productless shot, a 1970s-Hockney-gone-surrealist composition involving a half-dog, half-cat collaged onto shadowy pinks and babied blues, as discomfiting and mesmerizing as anything else on Weird Instagram right now." — Kate Carraway, How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage (2019)

"Suddenly, to my eyes, my throat, my mouth there rushed tears and a cry which I stifled into a feigned cough into my handkerchief. The waiter noticed my discomfiting state and poured more tea." — Alejandro Morales (1992)

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