Thesaurus / fluster
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
There was no longer any fluster of doubt and hesitation in his manner.
A HOUSEFUL OF GIRLSSARAH TYTLER
The three sisters took care of themselves and their house with the elegant ease and lack of fluster of gentlewomen born and bred.
THE YATES PRIDEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The Doctor said that he should himself bear them company, leaving the "younger men" to "fume and fluster and explore."
EAST ANGELSCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
For all his affectation of leisureliness and her obvious fluster, no doubt about it, Joe was gaining on her.
THE MAGNETIC NORTHELIZABETH ROBINS (C. E. RAIMOND)
Thus you will have plenty of time to make it to suit you, with no one to look on and fluster or confuse you.
She said this but still did not release his arm, and suddenly, in a fluster, he felt that the time he dreaded had come.
RAMSEY MILHOLLANDBOOTH TARKINGTON
So instead of departing in a fluster, she sat down heavily in order to contemplate them at her ease.
DUSTY STAROLAF BAKER
She hastened in to her mother, who was rapidly working herself into a Sunday fluster.
A ROOM WITH A VIEWE. M. FORSTER
Hit don't becomst de quality ter fluster demse'ves over de gwines on uv er low-lifeted fowl.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLEELLEN GLASGOW
In an instant the Hermit of the Silver Girdle was in a very great and unprecedented fluster.
TOM CLARK AND HIS WIFEPASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH
WORDS RELATED TO FLUSTER
- agitation
- all-overs
- anger
- animation
- butterflies
- cold sweat
- creeps
- delirium
- discomfiture
- disquiet
- disquietude
- excitability
- feverishness
- flap
- fluster
- fuss
- impatience
- jitters
- moodiness
- neurasthenia
- neuroticism
- perturbation
- sensitivity
- stage fright
- stimulation
- stress
- tension
- timidity
- tizzy
- to-do
- touchiness
- trembles
- tremulousness
- turbulence
- uneasiness
- willies
- worry
- astonish
- astound
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bewilder
- boggle
- buffalo
- confound
- daze
- discomfit
- disconcert
- discountenance
- dismay
- dumbfound
- embarrass
- faze
- floor
- flurry
- fluster
- frustrate
- get
- mess with one's head
- muddle
- mystify
- overcome
- paralyze
- puzzle
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- stagger
- stick
- stump
- stun
- stymie
- take aback
- throw
- throw into tizzy
- thwart
- astonish
- astound
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bewilder
- boggle
- buffalo
- confound
- daze
- discomfit
- disconcert
- discountenance
- dismay
- dumbfound
- embarrass
- faze
- floor
- flurry
- fluster
- frustrate
- get
- mess with one's head
- muddle
- mystify
- overcome
- paralyze
- puzzle
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- stagger
- stick
- stump
- stun
- stymie
- take aback
- throw
- throw into tizzy
- thwart
- astonish
- astound
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bewilder
- boggle
- buffalo
- confound
- daze
- discomfit
- disconcert
- discountenance
- dismay
- dumbfound
- embarrass
- faze
- floor
- flurry
- fluster
- frustrate
- get
- mess with one's head
- muddle
- mystify
- overcome
- paralyze
- puzzle
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- stagger
- stick
- stump
- stun
- stymie
- take aback
- throw
- throw into tizzy
- thwart
- abrade
- agitate
- anger
- annoy
- bluster
- bother
- browbeat
- bully
- chafe
- confuse
- cow
- disconcert
- disquiet
- disturb
- excite
- floor
- flummox
- flurry
- fluster
- fret
- fuddle
- gall
- get to
- harass
- intimidate
- irk
- nettle
- peeve
- perturb
- provoke
- put off
- put out
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- shake up
- stir
- stump
- throw into tizzy
- torment
- trouble
- unsettle
- vex
- wear
- worry
- abrade
- agitate
- anger
- annoy
- bluster
- bother
- browbeat
- bully
- chafe
- confuse
- cow
- disconcert
- disquiet
- disturb
- excite
- floor
- flummox
- flurry
- fluster
- fret
- fuddle
- gall
- get to
- harass
- intimidate
- irk
- nettle
- peeve
- perturb
- provoke
- put off
- put out
- rattle
- rattle one's cage
- shake up
- stir
- stump
- throw into tizzy
- torment
- trouble
- unsettle
- vex
- wear
- worry
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