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Перевод: discomfit
[глагол] расстраивать; смущать; приводить в замешательство; наносить поражение
Тезаурус:
- Normally, Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrres, but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod.
- Loretta felt herself blush and her fury rose: she was equally angry with the man, who had done it to discomfit her, and herself, for reacting.
- She looked away again, for her gaze seemed to discomfit Wolff, and said: "I imagine there was never a more interesting time to be a banker than the present."
- He confesses this is why he's started leaping out in uncharacteristic new directions which discomfit the regulars, playing with bright colours and polka dots when the world expects sludge and subtle stripes ad nauseam .
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