fluster

The defending champion is part of a seven-way tie for the first-round lead after plotting a three-under round of 67 which encapsulated his ability to play with relentless diligence and barely a flicker of fluster.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

The Falcons lack a great pass rush but might not need one to fluster Vikings rookie QB Jaren Hall, making his debut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

Every time, he managed to fluster me anyway.

From Slate ● May 27, 2023

Throughout the attempts, I was also struck that nothing seemed to fluster the AI.

From Scientific American ● May 25, 2023

She’d been in a mood for weeks, and now my new utensil organization system had pushed her grouchiness into a full-out fluster.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

The story is simple: The dad flusters, fidgets and whines; the girl gobbles room service as though aspiring to become human foie gras.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

"Nothing ever flusters Finn," says Scotland team-mate Kyle Steyn.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Not even her obliteration of such sacred territory as replacing Paul's traditional family tree with a bigger one flusters him, even though he didn't ask.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022

If Geno Smith can continue his hot start and the defense flusters Trey Lance like the Bears did last week, it’s a game they could win.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

And she flusters me again with her coolness.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Not while he’s flustered and frustrated — which you can’t spell without rust, though even Roberts admitted, “I don’t know how long you can use the rust thing, which I’ve certainly used.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

A test followed with the flustered pigeons flying off, convincing the club owners, and Hamish, a Harris hawk, became a fixture at the two-week championships.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

If he looked flustered, he had just come from more than an hour batting in the nets.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Midway through, a flustered young man strolling past turned to a trio of gray-haired protesters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

It was one of the few times I had ever seen Dad flustered.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Maybe knowing so many people is behind his sweating, flustering, and giggling.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

Even now I couldn’t tell what Harry wanted from me, or whether flustering me was just part of his fun.

From Slate ● May 27, 2023

Colorado got here by flustering opponents into making mistakes, and that recipe is working again in the final.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

The Chargers lost to the Broncos 28-13 on an afternoon that had been a closely contested, sometimes flustering, often confounding affair — until they crumbled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

There is always a flustering breeze in the air and a perturbation generally through the county when they come or go, and I think I perceived the effects about four in the afternoon. 

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope