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

“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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

Augustine struggled with Perpetua, disconcerted by her sex, her visions and her popularity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Even Danny Danon, a Netanyahu ally and former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who recently predicted a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia in 2023, seemed disconcerted.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

Despite being a balmy break, the uncharacteristic warmth disrupted some winter activities and left many disconcerted.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Ed remembered Ishmael’s father and shook his head, disconcerted.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Mr. Dillon’s tone of clinical detachment—from the horrors of the Mao years, for example—can be disconcerting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

Clearly, everyone had decided that there was something endearing about Petey, a thought that was a little disconcerting.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby