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UK
/dˌɪskənsˈɜːtɪd/
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ADJECTIVE
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having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion
the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand
looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
How To Use disconcerted In A Sentence
- Except the one night before my marriage, I'd never stayed in a hotel, and I was disconcerted when Pete leapt out of bed at 7am to get to his ship by eight.
- Heather was horribly disconcerted, fretting to no end.
- He is looking at me with a slight frown, disconcerted by something about me, ready to be embarrassed.
- Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
- The men looked almost as disconcerted as me; at my side, Merida yawned toothily and began to clean her fur.
- These former slaves, the freed Black men of the Canadian militias, disconcerted and discomfitted The American troops. Larisa Alexandrovna: The Far-Right's Patriotism Problem
- The writer claims to have been initially "disconcerted" by LB's remarks but now applauds them. More about Laura talking dirty.
- Their fixed stare disconcerted me; I rose, and, leaning on my husband's arm, again mingled in the brilliant circle. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
- I've been disconcerted at my inability to come to a conclusion of my own on any of this - a minor sorrow right now, I know.
- The offender was not disconcerted in the least.