discomfitting

The first is kind of discomfitting, and the second is just exploitative.

Kirsten Saell Guest Post - "Writing F/F(/M) for the Female Gaze" Victoria Janssen 2009

But those are needles of goodness lost in a haystack of poorly justified condescension, royal wes, only-half-joking tones, and discomfitting fantasies.

Book Review: Things That Make Us [Sic] makes me slightly ill « Motivated Grammar 2009

But those are needles of goodness lost in a haystack of poorly justified condescension, royal wes, only-half-joking tones, and discomfitting fantasies.

2009 May « Motivated Grammar 2009

What is apparently avoided in all the FISA and immunity discussion is the discomfitting probability [probable, not certain] that some Democrats in the House and Senate were colluding from the git go on the warrantless large-scale wiretapping of ordinary Americans.

Dodd Praises Reid's Leadership On FISA 2009

There are some stories that are so strange and discomfitting in this book that I have to imbibe them in small sips.

Archive 2009-06-01 Megan Kurashige 2009

There are some stories that are so strange and discomfitting in this book that I have to imbibe them in small sips.

May reading Megan Kurashige 2009

The story acknowledges the discomfitting dual nature of existence, pinning perversity to innocence, brutality to affection and mystery to revelation.

My Bloodyguard Arbogast 2009

The lack of surprise: very true, now that i read your review I remembered how odd I felt that neither Harry nor Stephen quite find their situation discomfitting or odd.

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock Adam Whitehead 2009

It's so freaky and discomfitting, but in a Gong Show kind of way.

"Give me a signal: Adjust your shorts." Ann Althouse 2008

Furthermore, the emergency employment of an ice house to store the bodies of the recently deceased and the discomfitting reliance on plastic wrap as a preservative sheath...

The Bavahood of Satan Arbogast 2008