disconcert
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They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2019
“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
Clark wants to make us recognise the difficulty and strangeness of Picasso's modernism: yes, of course, Picasso is an artist who should shock and disconcert you, if you are looking at him properly.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2013
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
He didn’t like it, so he thought he’d disconcert her.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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