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disconcert::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
| Type of | enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise, arouse, elicit, evoke |
| Has types | unsettle, abash, afflict, anguish, bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate, dissolve, embarrass, enervate, faze, hurt, inhibit, pain, throw, unnerve |
| Derivation | disconcertion, disconcertment |
Examples of disconcert
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If that sounds almost like a trademark Baddiel project, then another might disconcert the pigeonholers.
From the independent.co.uk
He pretends to be mad to disconcert and annoy people.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Bullies are fuelled by the sight of their victims disintegrating, so the key is to disconcert them.
From the guardian.co.uk
The economic data didn't disconcert Wall Street.
From the forbes.com
There may have been a touch of moisture there and the merest tinge of live grass, but not sufficient to disconcert.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is eager not to disconcert Middle America.
From the online.wsj.com
It's not anything that should disconcert anyone.
From the usatoday.com
The hand is in our flower bed by the front door, poking up at a slight angle to wave at passersby and disconcert delivery people.
From the news-journalonline.com
But the news that GE's leadership was willing to bend the rules over relatively tiny sums may well disconcert investors and analysts.
From the economist.com
- Confuse: cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- Upset: cause to lose one's composure
- (disconcerted) discombobulated: having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion; "the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand"; "looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted"- G.B.Shaw
- (disconcerting) causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- To upset the composure of; To bring into confusion; To frustrate, make go wrong
- (disconcerted) Ruffled, upset and embarrassed; Self-consciously distressed; Frustrated and disarranged
- (disconcerting) Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting
- (Disconcerting) Ominous? As alien a pair of words as I can think of to describe Manhattan's skyscrapers. And consider, the tallest skyscrapers in Sanborn's New York were ten stories high! ...
- Disturb composure of; fluster
