disconcert
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abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattle
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The president's insistence that mental illness is the cause of mass shootings has disconcerted mental health professionals who insist that most people with mental illness are nonviolent. — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, "Trump wants to bring back mental institutions to address mass shootings," 16 Aug. 2019 Upon docking Reed is disconcerted to find Van der Berg waiting for him by the pier. — Christopher Byrd, Washington Post, "‘The Sinking City’ sets a mood but struggles to go anywhere from there," 28 June 2019 But in a Democratic stronghold like Waukegan, which also has a history of low voter turnout, the attacks were disconcerting to May and signaled a sharper tone in the election. — Jason Grotto, ProPublica, "From Truck Stops to Elections, a River of Gambling Money Is Flooding Waukegan," 8 Aug. 2019 Some disconcerted nonprofit leaders showed up at the council meeting to request that their funding not be cut due to a political battle. — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, "City Council passes law to guard Seattle soda-tax revenue after spat with Mayor Jenny Durkan," 22 July 2019 There is something deeply disconcerting about an infrastructure failure. — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, "I’m mad as hell, but I won’t ditch the T," 11 July 2019 That the employee in question who was able to get this data easily, violating user privacy and Google’s apparent safeguards, is disconcerting. — Nick Statt, The Verge, "Google defends letting human workers listen to Assistant voice conversations," 11 July 2019 The disorientation is intentional—a bid to disconcert an audience in a place preoccupied with defining its own frontiers. — The Economist, "On the borders of art in Israel," 28 June 2019 This must have been disconcerting for drivers in the route’s early, wartime years, when Japantown ceased to be Japantown after the government rounded up its Japanese American residents and sent them off to prison camps. — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, "San Francisco scenic treasure that locals overlook," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'disconcert.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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