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  • adverb In a disquieting manner

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  • adverb in a disquieting manner

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Examples

  • Posted on 2004.09.22 at 20: 31 astolat wrote haven't read the fandom_wank response in particular, if that happens to be what mainly inspired this post, because in general I find f_w to be kind of disquietingly mob-like even when it's funny.

    I feel sorry for Anne Rice msagara 2004

  • "The lamentation over economic crisis, terrorism and traumatized veterans feels both true to its setting and disquietingly contemporary."

    Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear: Book summary 2010

  • It is precisely the disquietingly familiar that freaks you out.

    Reading Dangerously « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Now another crime has been committed in the same place, the murder of a twelve-year-old girl whose body has been found on an ancient sacrifical stone altar, which disquietingly shows faint traces of blood that may come from the old crime.

    Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • The reason everything seemingly is spinning out of control is that Campbell sounds disquietingly like Newt Gingrich, who employed a similarly over-the-top analogy, something about Nazis and the Holocaust museum.

    Community of Notions 2010

  • It was all somewhat surreal, like wandering a dreamworld cobbled together from fragmented pieces of memory, his surroundings familiar yet disquietingly incongruous.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • It was all somewhat surreal, like wandering a dreamworld cobbled together from fragmented pieces of memory, his surroundings familiar yet disquietingly incongruous.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • This, as we shall see, is also the answer to that disquietingly common plaint: ‘If humans have evolved from chimpanzees, how come there are still chimpanzees around?’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Edward VII, as a far more enlightened Prince of Wales than his disquietingly nationalistic grandson, had loosened several of the barrier ropes in Victorian society by choosing not to restrict his friendships to scions of ancient aristocratic tribes.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • This, as we shall see, is also the answer to that disquietingly common plaint: ‘If humans have evolved from chimpanzees, how come there are still chimpanzees around?’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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