disconcert

Example Sentences

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In Twin Peaks “they tend to disconcert us because there is something ‘off’ about them.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2020

“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2017

The poem's athletic feats of wit may entertain readers, or disconcert them, but it has a purpose beyond rhetoric: it is an act of mourning ... and, maybe, an act of self-heartening, too.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2012

The result is a genuinely fascinating piece that takes a while to build and may, at the outset, disconcert the accent police with the more persistently adenoidal sounds of the women in the cast.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2011

To faze is to disconcert or embarrass; it comes from a Middle English word, fesen, which meant “drive away” or “put to flight.”

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner