Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: disconcerting
IPA transcription: [d,ɪskəns'ɝtɪŋ]
Pronunciations of disconcerting
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disconcerting, upsetting
    Meaning: causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
Usage examples
  • Vincent's reception of these proposals was disconcerting.
  • When he did bring up it was with disconcerting suddenness.
  • What I say, I afterwards find disconcerting to recall. I want to alter it.
  • After the statement, "Learn of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification:
  • There came a pause which was almost as disconcerting as had been the previous rapid movements.
  • Other impressions, less ultimate, proved puzzling, disconcerting, and paradoxically reassuring.
  • Yet there in Paris the problems of Europe were terrible and clamant, and an occasional return to the vast unconcern of London a little disconcerting.
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