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  • The shark is circling Farnsworth, you of the bandy legs and discombobulated dance maneuverings.
  • Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • Variety's the spice of life, but jumping from one thing to another this week will completely discombobulate you and everyone else.
  • The term comes from "discombobulate," which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google.
  • We have been discombobulated by immigration, says David Cameron. Hideously diverse Britain: David Cameron's problem with immigration
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  • Fitzpatrick, filling in for the injured Carson Palmer for the seventh straight game, got so discombobulated that the ball sailed out of his hand as he tried to make one throw. USATODAY.com
  • The mother is not the only one who has become discombobulated.
  • Perhaps these inconstancies are part of the book's Art - an attempt to discombobulate the audience with extreme contradictions just as the characters live in a state of perpetual untruth and obfuscation.
  • The mysterious void discombobulated the men still on the field, who had never seen as such before.
  • Andy was puzzled by how discombobulated I was on the phone, and I was too flummoxed to say anything until she'd left.
  • So when the train from London arrived ten minutes early, catching me with a compressed paper beaker half full with scalding hot coffee I was somewhat discombobulated.
  • LEXINGTON, Kentucky (Ticker) -- Tennessee's Ron Slay vowed to "discombobulate" Kentucky, but the Volunteers could not slow down the Wildcats 'express. NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball - Tennessee vs. Kentucky
  • Far more than sex, it's the teeth brushing, the peeing, the tiny intimacies that discombobulate me. Diary of a separation
  • I smirked at Jen who was completely discombobulated and had stopped moving altogether.
  • Out on the road, the Juke is a strange sprite of a trucklet: diminutive, determined, loud, eager, winsome, but — given its dinky wheelbase, stiff antiroll bars, dearth of wheel travel and oddly discombobulated roll axes and center of gravity — also a trifle uncoordinated. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • Even sports cliches are discombobulated with this team.
  • Young kids are discombobulated by unfamiliar surroundings and too much sugar; grown-ups are discombobulated by overeating -- and drinking. Eileen Ogintz: Hosting Thanksgiving Is No Picnic -- Some Survival Tips
  • “Okay, I want to see exactly where we stand,” Catherine said, thinking with dour amusement that it almost seemed a loaded statement, given that everyone at the conference table looked utterly discombobulated, their weariness evident from their raccoon-ringed eyes, scrambled and beaten hair, and wrinkled clothes. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep
  • It could just be aging, but I think the surgery kind of discombobulated my internal coordination a bit. CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2009
  • Some chefs are easy to trust-no matter how discombobulated the ingredient list, no matter how intense the food aversion.
  • The spokesman was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • The bottom line is that a shock deflation will put many people out of work and discombobulate the economy.
  • I am a slave to routine. Days like this make me feel discombobulated all day long.
  • They serve not only as brilliant segues within the film's narrative but also contribute to a larger purpose of imbuing the viewer with an intense, discombobulated sensation that can only be described as ‘punch drunk’.
  • I was slightly discombobulated, turning around several times to make sure whom they were addressing.
  • Camara joked that he did not know what the word "discombobulate" meant. NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball - Tennessee vs. Kentucky
  • This week, we got the clue about the French Protestants of the Reformed Tradition, and the one about St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, but got hopelessly stuck on the clue that simply said "discombobulated". Archive 2008-02-01
  • The spokesman was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • Running off to the race track -- on their wedding day, no less -- is sure to discombobulate him. Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!
  • Being around him discombobulates her to no end.
  • The term comes from "discombobulate," which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google.
  • the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand
  • 'discombobulate' into separate conversations with each of the other celebrities without them suspecting that she was up to something. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • The term comes from "discombobulate", which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google. Muti
  • Now that I'm in Vermont and earning money, I'm completely discombobulated.
  • Perhaps these inconstancies are part of the book's Art - an attempt to discombobulate the audience with extreme contradictions just as the characters live in a state of perpetual untruth and obfuscation.
  • Guess it would have been OK if the discombobulated old drunk had skittled some kid on a zebra crossing.
  • I feel oddly discombobulated that I don't know whether the moon is waxing or waning.
  • Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry. Undefined
  • After wandering around the altered room, I felt as if I was in a fairground funhouse where floors and walls are designed to discombobulate.
  • On most of his leaps, he was too discombobulated at first to think clearly, let alone to come up with such a clever story.
  • The tiny animal darted away nervously, no doubt totally discombobulated by the sight of two bubble-blowing monsters disturbing it's quiet lifestyle.
  • Nightfall is a work of striking juxtapositions and tones that by picture end, come off like an unforgettably disarming person -- you're charmed, discombobulated, even slightly disturbed, and you're not sure what to make of it all. Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
  • • Changes at News International, where James Murdoch, discombobulated perhaps by the phone-hacking revelations, devises new ways to disconcert his underlings. Hugh Muir's Diary
  • If you choose not to do that, be prepared to discombobulate four lives and take your chances of it working out well or badly.
  • That's also how Weill wanted to be seen, but it didn't quite work out for him as Citi grew too large and discombobulated to be effectively managed. Yvette Kantrow: Polishing the Dimon
  • Years ago, while living in California, I heard the word "discombobulate'" and have been using it ever since, when in a state of chaos. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • We were suddenly discombobulated because we were not aware of any amendment to clause 1.

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