All 3 Uses of
disconcerting
in
The Age of Innocence
- She was a fearless and familiar little thing, who asked disconcerting questions, made precocious comments, and possessed outlandish arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar.†
Chpt 8
- Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would.†
Chpt 9 *
- M. Riviere took this onslaught with a disconcerting humility.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(disconcerting) disrupt composure -- such as to confuse or worry