(v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
(v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
(n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
(3) More disconcerting for his club, country and the game itself with a World Cup on the horizon were the succession of injury problems that prompted allegations of burn-out in the four-time Ballon d'Or winner.
(4) Low degrees of role interference is likewise disconcerting to persons but in the absence of an external target for aggression may lead to self deprecation and ultimately suicide.
(5) A further disconcerting feature was the resemblance of the distal right ventricular chamber to the rudimentary chamber of a univentricular heart of left ventricular type.
(6) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
(7) There is something slightly disconcerting about seeing Terry Hall laugh - at least the first time it happens.
(8) Despite their disconcerting appearance on angiography, spontaneous dissections of the internal carotid arteries are often associated with a good prognosis.
(9) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
(10) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
(11) The authors suggest that dichotomous variables deserve greatest clinical reliance; that time in training, alone, does not improve clinical performance; and that there is a disconcertingly large amount of inter- and intraobserver disagreement in this fundamental clinical task.
(12) City fan Matthew Cobb may be disconcerted, and paradoxically strangely comforted, with the news that his team are still in the dressing room.
(13) Prior arterial surgery was not shown to make AK amputation more likely, but it was disconcerting to note that limb salvage was not achieved in many individuals despite patent proximal inflow revascularization procedures.
(14) The opacity of these “other factors” aside, Facebook’s sometimes disconcerting suggestions – perhaps more accurately titled “people you most definitely know, but have no intention of adding” – have been remarked upon since it introduced the feature in 2008 .
(15) It is only the expression, often disconcerting, of a method of cerebral suffering and the clinician should be aware of its various presentations.
(16) Romney told NBC News: "There are a few things that were disconcerting.
(17) But it is disconcerting when you encounter it in real life.
(18) While these changes may be potentially disconcerting, the observations of this study show that they are not related to changes in heart rate or other clinical criteria associated with myocardial ischemia.
(19) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
(20) Locals love it and foreigners often find it disconcerting.
Faze
Definition:
(v. t.) See Feeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Shelley Kerr is the slightest bit fazed by her new appointment, as the first woman to manage a senior men’s team in Britain, she does not let on.
(2) They release reports ahead of major conferences and Kimberley plenary sessions but we are not fazed at all."
(3) Norman added that it did not faze him that he was not the first choice for the role and pledged to spend as many hours at the broadcaster as was necessary to get the business back on track.
(4) "He has come into this environment and is not fazed and is looking forward to the game."
(5) We know we’ve got a lot of ability so there’s no point being afraid of teams.” Hodgson must certainly be aware that Vardy will not be fazed in the slightest should he be brought into the starting lineup for Monday’s game against Slovakia.
(6) So we are talking about a process which, despite the best efforts of judges and the special advocates who represent the claimant in a closed material procedure, may militate against truth, and that is something everyone should take seriously, even the power-fazed Lib Dems.
(7) Aside from being a top player, one who commands respect within the group, Wayne is passionate about representing his country and won’t be fazed by the responsibility.” “Before a game, he is one of the most vocal players in the dressing room.
(8) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
(9) Rashford was still some way behind Bill Nicholson’s record, set in 1951, for scoring 19 seconds into his England debut but, more importantly, the new kid on the block confirmed he is not fazed easily.
(10) But not having a bike doesn’t appear to faze Uber: with the swipe of a finger I turn from “Uber Bicycle” to “Uber Walker”, and with jobs like Nicholas’s begins the slow attempt to earn enough money to buy a new bike.
(11) Initially at least it certainly succeeded in fazing a France team deployed in characteristic 4-4-2 guise.
(12) There have been times when the requirement for a draw would not have fazed Italians.
(13) The downsides are the cold in winter and having to empty the toilet every few weeks, but these haven't fazed her.
(14) Her DC Rachel Bailey, in Scott & Bailey , isn't fazed by the contents of a dead body's anal swab, a dodgy ex who tries to have her killed, or even her permanent hangover.
(15) García told the Guardian that poll didn’t faze him.
(16) Kokkinos says the first time he performed in America he was quite fazed by the fact that people started laughing during moments he considered painful.
(17) Fincher, baby-faced over breakfast tea in London, isn't fazed.
(18) If the arrival of an attacking partner galvanised Jonathan Walters, confrontation by 4-4-2 fazed Newcastle.
(19) The topsy-turvy idea of immigrants being made to respect supposedly British values, such as free speech, while being excluded from these themselves did not seem to faze Mr Woolas at all.
(20) He has already shared stories with me of growing up in care and moving between London and his family in Wolverhampton, so I'm confident these new surroundings don't faze him.