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Likewise James Clyde, who gets every laugh he can out of Horace’s valet, Bates, whom Eric Blore made such a consternated, rubber-faced classic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Sometimes I became so consternated when I woke up to the reality of my weaknesses that I scrambled to the computer in order to escape all over again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

Joe Casey, lead singer with Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr, recalls the band’s recent European tour and he’s somewhat consternated.

From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016

The message would engage consternated consumers in a way that meritorious professional initiatives like R-CISC cannot.

From Forbes ● Oct. 6, 2014

They was surprised, if ye choose, an’ powerfully enraged mayhap, but they wasn’t consternated by no means.”

From The Lighthouse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then upon Hilversea and its surroundings and dependents fell another bolt—swift, sudden, consternating.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

Margaret Jones manifested startling efficacy of hands and medicines, consternating keenness of perceptives, predictions subsequently verified, and the presence of a vanishing child.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

So the chance to put his serviceability to the proof in consternating circumstances like these, afforded her a subtle satisfaction.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell