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    Use "disconcerting" in a sentence

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    disconcerting


    1. I go in and shake hands with the man standing behind the desk while at the same time I am uncomfortably aware that he is scanning what I am wearing, leaving me with the disconcerting impression that he knows what colour my knickers are


    2. It was a totally disconcerting feature of whatever this game was


    3. The most disconcerting thing was still the horizon


    4. That, in itself, is disconcerting


    5. edge to the question that Sandini found disconcerting


    6. The brawny women’s presence was a little disconcerting, but was tolerated by all present as the queen’s safety came first


    7. Jim found this setup slight disconcerting


    8. Imbrahim found more than a little disconcerting


    9. She found it a little disconcerting


    10. Hilderich grinned and the effect on Amonas was for the first time totally disconcerting, perhaps even chillingly terrifying

    11. His light mood was rare and, in view of his own distressed state, extremely disconcerting


    12. More disconcerting was the realization, as he turned all that he knew over in his mind, that he had to admit that he had very limited knowledge about Elizabeth’s role with whatever organization it was that Quarles represented


    13. Even now, he had the disconcerting habit of snipping at his nose with a pair of scissors, without apparently noticing the blood


    14. This last bit was a bit disconcerting to them and they talked among themselves for a while about it


    15. All in all, he presented a somewhat disconcerting appearance, but Mark had faced him before in a dream, and many times at that


    16. His grandfather, a lean sixty year-old with cheekbones you could slit your wrists on, spoke excellent English although his smile was a trifle disconcerting – exposing a full set of stainless steel dentures


    17. While fugitives had been routinely and amicably exchanged between the countries for many years, there was one recent case that was somewhat disconcerting


    18. endless aisles and confusion of colours was disconcerting me


    19. ” Resa sighed sullenly, but she closed her mouth, though she still hadn’t stopped glaring at Tristan, a fact that he found exceedingly disconcerting


    20. It was, again, most disconcerting

    21. 7 The father of the bridegroom had provided plenty of wine for all the guests bidden to the marriage feast, but how was he to know that the marriage of his son was to become an event so closely associated with the expected manifestation of Jesus as the Messianic deliverer? He was delighted to have the honor of numbering the celebrated Galilean among his guests, but before the wedding supper was over, the servants brought him the disconcerting news that the wine was running short


    22. They were all beginning to realize that disconcerting and crushing events were impending


    23. ” During lunch, commenting with General Monca-da about that disconcerting proliferation, she expressed the desire for Colonel Aureliano Buendía to come back someday and gather all of his sons together in the house


    24. After all, what good would they do in the event of another attack like the one a month before? Instead, it was a bit disconcerting, but it would have been even worse had these armed men in uniform been from another country


    25. It struck Feltus as odd that these strangers, in a sense considering they had never personally met prior to this trip, who were evidently not fond of each other should managed to assemble in such a strong and commanding fashion that appeared to give the impression of impenetrability and astute readiness; furthermore, it was quite disconcerting that Elizabeth, in whom he had placed his confidence by enlisting her aid, should apparently be the ringleader of this menacing squadron that was obviously prepared for battle, but Feltus attempted to maintain his assertions that this was nothing more than mere coincidence, the suspects all having met in the lobby where they quickly questioned the meaning of the event prior to entering the dining room together so as not to delay the beginning of the affair


    26. He found it disconcerting that he couldn’t place


    27. He found it slightly odd and disconcerting that anyone would be here given the recent developments, unless that individual had some involvement with the events that had transpired over the last twenty-four hours


    28. They had news that was disconcerting to Wolf


    29. The tissue looked filthy with flesh, which was disconcerting


    30. It was slightly disconcerting to see how dubious he looked when I said this

    31. It was rather disconcerting


    32. A calming and a disconcerting experience it was


    33. She found it all morally contradictory and disconcerting


    34. The sight of the Bengal chief minister in the kitchen, her crumpled sari tied in a no-nonsense knot, sweat pouring from her brow, rushing between steaming pots of Bengali delicacies was, I must confess, more than a little disconcerting


    35. The pull was thrilling, but disconcerting


    36. terribly disconcerting task with the students given to his care


    37. was a disconcerting gap in his continuity that he simply could not access


    38. Sophie smiled at his goading reply, which was a rather disconcerting reaction


    39. I’ll admit it must be more than a bit disconcerting to be strolling down Fifth Avenue, along the Champs Elysee or San Antonio’s lovely River Walk and suddenly find oneself picked up in an enormous clutch of tree-sized fingers, to be peered at and poked, even undressed and sniffed at! Moms and dads seeing their favorite child appropriated as a plaything for some Big One parents’ kid, must go through the seven levels of hell


    40. have been the most disconcerting part of it, that and his solemnity

    41. The pool itself had been re-tiled to resemble a summer clouded sky, which Byron had found to be quite disconcerting when he first dove in, it felt to him like diving upside down and falling to the sky


    42. It’s even more disconcerting than it should be since he’s changed his appearance to be more Conan the Barbarian-esque


    43. The words were just that, words to break the intensity and disconcerting silence


    44. It was disconcerting have


    45. Papa was delighted, I must say, to have had at last, as he told me with disconcerting warmth, at last after all these months an intelligent conversation, but with his delight the success of your visit ends, for when I heard of it I was not delighted at all


    46. She was altogether most disconcerting


    47. The whole scene was more than a little disconcerting


    48. To be strenuous, to hold intense views on questions that seem to you to burn, and to be treated as an airy nothing, a charming nothing perhaps, but still a nothing, must be, on the whole, disconcerting


    49. I do not know that I should call it more than disconcerting


    50. Bullivant's having produced an exclamation; and this to the Bishop, after years of not having heard her more than murmur, was almost as disconcerting as if, flinging self-restraint to the winds, she had suddenly produced fresh offspring






































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    Synonyms for "disconcerting"

    disconcerting upsetting

    "disconcerting" definitions

    causing an emotional disturbance