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How to use disconcerting in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Disconcerting means tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm. Example: “Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.”

Examples of disconcerting by meaning

adjectiveTending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

  • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.
  • The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

More sentences with disconcerting

  • By another artist, this could be a comment on the disconcerting, hypercommodified artificiality of modern life.2007 October 5, Ken Johnson, “Illuminating a Pursuit of Transcendence”, in New York Times. From the entry hypercommodified
  • Suddenly, you get a disconcerting attack of ponophobia, the dread of overworking or of pain.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books - Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group -…. From the entry ponophobia
  • To the uninitiated the sight of strong men eagerly slapping themselves may be a trifle disconcerting.1953 March 6, “Penn State Students Do a Bit of ‘Schuhplattling’”, in Sunbury Daily Item, volume XVI, number 55, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page…. From the entry schuhplattle
  • Perception shifts and phantom limbs may be disconcerting, but they can be useful in helping therians to settle on their theriotype.2023, Michael Bond, Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging. From the entry theriotype
  • In the images, set on an inky black background, his bald head is covered by his famously disconcerting "fright wig".2006 January 19, Arifa Akbar, “Warhol's final self-portraits reveal his darker side”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Jun 2014. From the entry fright wig
  • It turns out that the brave new world of free-flowing information can be a bit disconcerting, even to infoanarchists.2000 July, A. Cohen, “The Infoanarchist”, in Time, volume 155, page 47. From the entry infoanarchist
  • His youth, his good looks, his charm made the sinister savagery hinted in the smile the more disconcerting.a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise. From the entry seltzer
  • He came with a disconcerting black-eye that he wouldn’t explain.1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan…. From the entry purple patch
  • As it happened, the thing worked with disconcerting abruptness as his untrained fingers fell hapchance on the spring.1908, Louis Joseph Vance, The Black Bag, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. From the entry hapchance
  • It is also disconcerting when you suddenly realise that the driver isn't steering, but may be thumbing over his Customs papers with his feet up.1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Lines in County Donegal”, in Railway Magazine, page 129. From the entry thumb
  • Even more disconcerting, evidence suggested that Foy was a man-scaper, because other than the slicked back hair on his head he was as bald all over as a newborn.2012, Kate Hoffmann, Rhonda Nelson, The Professional/The Mighty Quinns: Ronan, →ISBN. From the entry man-scaper
  • MODESELEKTOR (Saturday) This duo, from Berlin, plays skronky, occasionally disconcerting electronic music, and has benefited enormously from the copious—and copiously heeded—praise of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.2009 January 23, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry skronky
  • The Arlesians considered him to be a pervert, and children ridiculed him for his odd appearance and disconcerting habit of hanging around brothels in the evenings.2004, Derek Fell, Van Gogh's Women: His Love Affair and His Journey into Madness, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry Arlesian
  • "Why not?" demanded Joolby, turning on his props to regard George with the blank full-faced stare that presented his disconcerting features in their most pronounced aspect.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry full-faced
  • Lots of people claimed she was the image of her father (about the same number who saw her as the dead spit of her mother), which was a little disconcerting.2011, Kate Konopicky, “Worn-Out Genes”, in A Woman Of No Importance: A Tenderly Observed, Ruthlessly Honest and Hilariously Funny Memoir…. From the entry spit

Meaning of disconcerting

  1. adjective Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

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Questions about disconcerting in a sentence

How do you use disconcerting in a sentence?
Disconcerting is used as an adjective. For example: “Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.”
What is a short sentence with disconcerting?
“He came with a disconcerting black-eye that he wouldn’t explain.”
What does disconcerting mean?
Disconcerting means tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

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