Crossword-Solution: DISCOMFITURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discomfiture | v. t. | The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. |
We have 130 clues for the answer “DISCOMFITURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| defeasance | 6 answers |
| Discomfit | 21 answers |
| mental strain | 33 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| bashfulness | 51 answers |
| overhanging | 51 answers |
| worsening | 51 answers |
| ABASEMENT | 51 answers |
| Opprobrium | 52 answers |
| Wallowing | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| disesteem | 53 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| cowering | 54 answers |
| servility | 54 answers |
| disconcertment | 54 answers |
| comedown | 55 answers |
| Ignominy | 56 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| Breakdown | 56 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| Waterloo | 57 answers |
| frustration | 57 answers |
| Disrepute | 58 answers |
| stigma | 58 answers |
| fall down | 58 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| PERPLEXED state | 59 answers |
| Inconvenience | 59 answers |
| Tumble | 60 answers |
| disintegration | 60 answers |
| harassment | 60 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| deterrent | 61 answers |
| mishap | 61 answers |
| trauma | 61 answers |
| CAVE (IN) | 62 answers |
| Disappointment | 62 answers |
| conquest | 62 answers |
| Compunction | 63 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Bad luck | 63 answers |
| Beating | 63 answers |
| Odium | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| Undoing | 64 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
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The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISCOMFITURE (5)
The schoolboy, coming into the world, as he does, almost adult from the snowy shell that has encompassed his development for five long years, knows so little of life without a sword at his hip that he would feel the same discomfiture at going abroad unarmed that an Earth boy would experience in walking the streets knicker-bockerless.
The other apes derived unlimited amusement from Tublat’s discomfiture, for Broken Nose was a disagreeable old fellow, whom no one liked, anyway.
Cedric the Saxon, overjoyed at the discomfiture of the Templar, and still more so at the miscarriage of his two malevolent neighbours, Front-de-Bœuf and Malvoisin, had, with his body half stretched over the balcony, accompanied the victor in each course, not with his eyes only, but with his whole heart and soul.
The beasts, liberated from the confinement of the hold, wandered about the deck, not a little to the discomfiture of the crew in whose minds there remained a still vivid picture of the savagery of the beasts in conflict with those who had gone to their deaths beneath the fangs and talons which even now seemed itching for the soft flesh of further prey.
What was it that had attracted Numa’s attention and taken him soft-footed and silent away from the scene of his discomfiture? Just as the lion disappeared among the trees beyond the clearing Tarzan caught upon the down-coming wind the explanation of his new interest—the scent spoor of man was wafted strongly to the sensitive nostrils.
Quotes with DISCOMFITURE (3)
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they…
Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be sacrificed on an altar of corruption, merely that a lofty family be spared discomfiture? Oh, this was tenfold more abominable than the crime itself, that high authority should wink at it!
I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.