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disconcerting

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verb

present participle of disconcert

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disconcerting
Adjective
The findings are deeply disconcerting. Stephanie Silverman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025 And things grow even more disconcerting when Miss Giddens begins seeing things and hearing voices. Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025 The result was a disconcerting 31-28 loss that relegated the Chiefs to 2-3 and leaves us to question anew just who and what this team is. Chris Ochsner, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025 Overall, more disconcerting for staffers at the network are Paramount’s plans for significant layoffs later this year. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025 That was an especially disconcerting phrase. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025 The french fries had a disconcerting astringency, like they’d been dusted in the same stuff that’s put on Hint of Lime Tostitos. Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025 But the evidence lately is disconcerting. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025 The disconcerting answer is that nobody knows. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
The code, though, is currently often replete with disconcerting troubles. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Book Marks september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The young actor has a disconcerting awareness of the roiling potential of his changing body. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025 Even without Karl-Anthony Towns, Minnesota’s size remains disconcerting to the Nuggets, especially when Aaron Gordon is out. Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025 And disconcerting moments are in the show, such as the larger-than-life black widow spiders that dangle from the ceiling. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025 The fact all these acquisition titles are leaving snail tracks in their quests for distributors to bring them to theaters or streaming services is disconcerting, for sure. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025 That text message turned out to be the first in a series of disconcerting messages friends and family members would apparently receive from Michael Shaver over the course of the next two and a half years. Paige Harriss, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025 Russia was becoming more closed, and this was disconcerting for a generation that had grown up in a modernized and relatively open society. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disconcerting
Adjective
  • But for Dylan, going from Jew to Jesus freak—however slack a Jew he’d been—was no more questionable or embarrassing to him than going from acoustic to electric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Panthers are coming off an embarrassing 40-9 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This was out of respect for me, and also to avoid confusing the children.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter is among those coaches expected to get real consideration in next year's head-coaching cycle, and his propensity for confusing young QBs is well known across the NFL.
    Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In its eerie, uncomfortable depiction of Derry as a toxic version of the all-American town, the series is sometimes more powerful than when Pennywise jumps at the screen.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There’s certainly an authenticity to this development; who among us hasn’t procrastinated when facing an uncomfortable decision?
    Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Frederick Wherry, Kristin Seefeldt, and Anthony Alvarez examine the strategies potential lenders use to make these interactions less awkward.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Talk about awkward reunions at unlikely places, if this does happen.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties.
    Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • McClung has almost singlehandedly revived the Slam Dunk Contest with his imaginative arsenal of rim-rattling highlights, but has yet to consistently crack an NBA rotation.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • So much of what happens in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is disturbing — in particular, the character of Leatherface, the menacing, basement-dwelling killer who eats people and wears their faces after killing them.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • What makes this even more disturbing is the involvement of teenagers, alcohol, and guns at a large house party.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Garbage disposals can flush away food debris on pots and pans in a flash, but anyone who owns one of these devices knows that unpleasant smells are a regular occurrence.
    Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2025
  • If potatoes get too cold, the tubers turn black or become mushy, grainy, and unpleasant to eat.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the world’s most persistent waste problems, plastics are durable and difficult to recycle.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But grass is difficult to digest for the mammal.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Disconcerting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disconcerting. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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