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UK
/dɪskˌɒmbəbjʊlˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
How To Use discombobulation In A Sentence
- It goes through a constant process of discombobulation as entrepreneurs invent new products and processes.
- The number of people who've posted remarks along the lines of "I know it's racist, but I'm British ..." is indicative of the demoralisation and discombobulation of non-Muslim Brits you speak of. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
- Had any twinges, aches, discombobulations lately, or even an angry tooth?
- We can scale up an oxymoron such as "He froze, turning his head slowly to look," into the more complex sort of narrative non sequiturs we get in absurdist or surrealist fiction, the discontinuities that give these works their oneiric quality, the discombobulation engendered where the sentences don't build up into a sensible sequence. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk