disconcert

Example Sentences

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“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

Questions like this disconcert me, because I’m sort of an omnivore, apt to go from the latest John Sandford to D. H. Lawrence to Cormac McCarthy.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2015

Perhaps her ghostly voice will both comfort and disconcert her beloved Faith, but I assure you, the dog will cope.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2014

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