[
US
/dɪˈsɑɹmɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪsˈɑːmɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɑːmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
act of reducing or depriving of arms
the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete
ADJECTIVE
- capable of allaying hostility
How To Use disarming In A Sentence
- He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
- Their songs have a certain elegant charm and a quality of innocence that's genuinely disarming.
- In ancient times they used disguise and subterfuge, but these modern warriors used an equally disarming trick. Times, Sunday Times
- Her secret, it seems, has been a confluence of business savvy and a folksy but formidable disarming charm. Times, Sunday Times
- Ryder's familiarity with the camera contributes to his disarmingly ingenuous presence, by turns determined and naive.
- Trains lines were dynamited, and civilians were attacking police stations and disarming police officers and taking them prisoner.
- It is not everyday that you find an autobiography so disarmingly direct and candid.
- Cherry is disarmingly open with her emotions: warm and impulsive one moment, solemn and thoughtful the next. Times, Sunday Times
- Around them are entwined canonic melodies of disarming ingenuousness. Times, Sunday Times
- An urgent and then melancholy opening was unsettled by dark bass trills and a menacing fugal theme, only to be undone by the second movement's disarming simplicity. Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement