disconcert

Djokovic's on-court aura can disconcert many younger opponents and Alexander Zverev, often described as the best player of his generation to have never won a major, is one of them.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

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

Questions like this disconcert me, because I’m sort of an omnivore, apt to go from the latest John Sandford to D. H. Lawrence to Cormac McCarthy.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015

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

If it disconcerts you to see Clemson quarterback D.J.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021

That shift in focus disconcerts consumer advocates, who are in favor of better financial education, but not at the expense of oversight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

As he’s driving home from work, a song comes on the radio that disconcerts him and triggers a whole train of thought.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 6, 2017

What disconcerts me sometimes is what’s expected of the genre.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2014

The silence and the intimacy of the room disconcerts him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Kallman’s unexpected involvement disconcerted Stravinsky, who feared Auden’s sexual inclinations were clouding his literary judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Even Emily Blunt was publicly disconcerted, begging Hollywood agencies to “please stop taking away our human connection.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

They are disconcerted by the prospect of apex predators roaming their territory, including on popular trails.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

He said he did not believe the audience would be disconcerted if he appeared as a newsman on television on Sundays and a pitchman on the radio during the week.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

She had a hard face and blinked so rarely that Olanna was disconcerted by her wide-eyed stare the first time they spoke.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But they did have one potentially innovative and surprising, if disconcerting, solution to our national public health information crisis: A.I. has the potential to help stave off a conspiratorial catastrophe during the next pandemic.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

There’s also a malevolent private eye played by Raymond Burr in the disconcerting role that made him a star.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Not only is the narrative in this “Animal Farm” not the story you knew it to be, but its social implications could be far more disconcerting than a simple change of ideology.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

We return to the truly disconcerting thing about the AI moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

He found the man’s lack of insignia disconcerting and was not even sure he had to say ‘sir.’

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller