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- adverb In a
disconcerted manner.
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Examples
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Groder and the others stared at him disconcertedly.
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When Jakobowski arrived near this seemingly harmless demarcation line he came to a stop disconcertedly.
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There was lots of signage and a few grotesque prop tents symbolizing various massacres throughout the last century, with the number of people murdered in each klling field looking disconcertedly like real estate prices "Darfur: Over 400,000 Dead!"
Dalai O'Brien Does Darfur sfmike 2007
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The smell of candy corn wafted from the fudgery and the Salvation Army man slumped quietly by the benches, limply ringing his bells and looking disconcertedly like an impoverished Santa Claus.
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The smell of candy corn wafted from the fudgery and the Salvation Army man slumped quietly by the benches, limply ringing his bells and looking disconcertedly like an impoverished Santa Claus.
blog: December 2007 2007
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Mr. William, standing behind the table, and rummaging disconcertedly among the objects upon it, directed persuasive glances at Mrs. William, and secret jerks of his head and thumb at Mr. Redlaw, as alluring her towards him.
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There was lots of signage and a few grotesque prop tents symbolizing various massacres throughout the last century, with the number of people murdered in each klling field looking disconcertedly like real estate prices "Darfur: Over 400,000 Dead!"
Archive 2007-04-01 sfmike 2007
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Lyndon laughed as usual; but somewhat disconcertedly: indeed I had clearly the best of him in the argument, and had just as much right to hunt my fortune as he had.
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People who are more concerned with rapidly and disconcertedly building a ROAD, something for a piece of machinery, than being worried about our water supply, a necessity for our survival.
Conservationist Arrested for Protesting Paving at cvillenews.com 2004
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‘It chanced so with me,’ said Bradley, looking disconcertedly about him.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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