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- adverb In a
disconcerting manner;upsettingly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a disturbing or embarrassing manner
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Examples
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The situation is not helped by Stephen's far-from-supportive parents, who proudly display the family tree with Melanie's name barely penciled in, and who remain disconcertingly attached to Stephen's ex-fiancée, a woman apparently intent on restaking her claim on Stephen.
Daniel Isn't Talking: Summary and book reviews of Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach. 2006
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Fitch Ratings cut its outlooks on Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia and Latvia to negative from stable, warning they were "disconcertingly" reliant on credit supplied by the rest of the world.
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I've come disconcertingly close to the latter a few times.
Writing Question: Creating a Plot odysseyworkshop 2009
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Service is fast, almost disconcertingly so—ideal for a bite before curtain.
Lore of Old New York 2011
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A young, crisp cumulus can develop a "pileus"—a delicate, evanescent cloud-cap, which Mr. Pretor- Pinney disconcertingly likens to Donald Trump's comb-over.
Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011
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Despite being labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, it's Noah's personality -- foul-mouthed, funny and disconcertingly intuitive -- that defines him, not his diagnosis.
Dennis Palumbo: Who (and What) Defines Normal? Dennis Palumbo 2011
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He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic.
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Murakami's genius, on both large and small canvases, is to create worlds both utterly alien and disconcertingly familiar.
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Even more disconcertingly, certain parts of the world today have not even vaguely approached the Spartan ideals of 2,000 years ago on this topic! glenda larke on Apr 23rd, 2010 at 11: 30 am
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Despite being labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, it's Noah's personality -- foul-mouthed, funny and disconcertingly intuitive -- that defines him, not his diagnosis.
Dennis Palumbo: Who (and What) Defines Normal? Dennis Palumbo 2011
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