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unnerving

adjective as in disquieting

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Rivals sometimes embrace unorthodox approaches, Popple says, conducting hourslong interview sessions that can include questions aimed at unnerving candidates—What was your kindergarten report card like?

“Dissociative” is a decent descriptor for Isella’s music, too — disorienting, unnerving, drawing out emotions you might not understand.

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It was unnerving to be so out of touch.

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The warning resurfaced on social media this week, going viral as users grappled with the unnerving reality of the Times’ editorial foresight.

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It is gruesome, disturbing, and – save for the standard creative license taken in its scripts – unnervingly precise in re-creating Dahmer’s history and the legend that has arisen around him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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