- present participle of disconcert.
disconcerting
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Instead, I have envisaged its discontenting dynamics and concluded that Gin & French and its ilk are on the order of the non-American hamburger.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013
Thus literature is apt to form a dangerous and discontenting occupation even for the amateur.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas
The vivid flashes of memory which do come to him only incite a great restlessness for its renewal, which, if it be for the time impossible, is only disquieting and discontenting.
From The New Tenant by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
It contents the Jingoes by certain dubious phrases, while discontenting the Clerical and Conservative neutrals.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing disconcerting
The Great Gatsby
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Grade 9, List 3
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