“The second most important person in the country had not yet fully recovered from the electoral shock, but his discomfiture at the party was made worse by his visible loneliness.”

“His discomfiture was to prove the difference between the sides when the dramatic finale was played out.”

“Tarapore and Kapila even had the discomfiture of being fined five penalty points for jumping the starter's gun in the second race.”

“From the first bewrayments of infancy to the last accidents of senility, we furnish contempt to one another by our discomfitures.”

“May thy grandest adventures Discomfitures prove, May thy joys be all dreams, And forgotten thy love.”