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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disconcert .
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Examples
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She is a brave woman, whom nothing dejects or disconcerts, which is the living proof that we are only valued according to the force and versatility of the inner consciousness.
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She is a brave woman, whom nothing dejects or disconcerts, which is the living proof that we are only valued according to the force and versatility of the inner consciousness.
Conscience — Complete Hector Malot 1868
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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One thing which I find disconcerts some women, and is even a matter of grave concern, is that, at times, their hair falls out.
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Khan slips clear of an advancing Peterson and then catches the challenger with a right that disconcerts his opponent.
Lamont Peterson beats Amir Khan - as it happened! | Steve Busfield 2011
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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It is, in fact, the immobility and abstraction of the Discharged Soldier that disconcerts the onlooker: no visibility is to be found here in the eye of the seer.
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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The idea that God may not act as a cosmic safety net to catch us when we make foolish choices disconcerts many who have grown up with the tradition that God determines the fall of each sparrow.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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