| 释义 |
discomfitingly
adverb
formaluk /dɪˈskʌm.fɪt.ɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈskʌm.fɪt̬.ɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable or uncertain:
Some of the images are discomfitingly intimate.
Both characters are discomfitingly desperate for recognition.
She has a discomfitingly acute awareness of the absurdity of human life.
The people seem to have a need for jobs, security, and discomfitingly, someone to tell them what to do.
Their stories make the expression "killing with kindness" discomfitingly literal.
His new show discomfitingly links politics to art.
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Synonym
disconcertingly Related words |