disconcert

Example Sentences

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Despite a few postmodern flourishes and some teasing structural game playing, their latest offerings are unlikely to disconcert habitual watchers of “Masterpiece” television.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2017

“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

For a while it looked as if the greater variety would disconcert the home defenders, who are so ferociously direct with their advance that they can be thrown by a change of direction.

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2012

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