Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.
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- adjective Tending to cause
discomfort ,uneasiness oralarm ;unsettling ;troubling ;upsetting .
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- adjective causing an emotional disturbance
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Examples
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What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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More disconcerting is that many southern Repubs with Klan roots cannot stomach a black man as President.
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What's disconcerting is how he, like I've heard from Terry O'Quinn in LOST interviews, has given up on completely delving into and investing in their character's inner-workings and resigned to being a 'puppet' for the writers and directors.
/Film Boston - An Interview with Michael Madsen | /Film 2010
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What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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I think yankeesue was referring to HSI because I went to their site, too, and found no staff listing, and even more disconcerting is that when I hit “contact us”, I got the following error message:
Wonk Room » CD-ROM Converter Service Center HSI Doubles As The GOP’s Favorite ‘Academic Think Tank’ 2009
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Brad: “What I find disconcerting is that we actually ran a $900,000 trade deficit with Canada in live turkeys in the first half of this year!”
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What's perhaps more disconcerting is that fact that the parents of those children let them stay for sleepovers at Jackson's * shudder* Yes, whole scenario is simply evil.
Maybe I'm just a cold-hearted jerk Tyler 2009
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What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010
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They have been finding them in disconcerting abundance.
The Sky Is Falling 2008
mager commented on the word disconcerting
It is disconcerting that Joel is trying to rap to the bartender at Nova in San Francisco right now.
February 6, 2008
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word disconcerting
Is the 'ce' pronounced as 's' or 'ch'?
July 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word disconcerting
Disconcertinaizbrokened.
November 26, 2010
GHibbs commented on the word disconcerting
My adjectival use: 'The attack by the dog was a disconcerting experience.'
August 22, 2011