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fluster
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  • When they came out into the waiting room, Barton Snode was standing there looking flustered, his jaw twitching from side to side.  (source)
    flustered = nervous or confused
  • 'And don't fluster poor Charlie.  (source)
    fluster = make nervous or confused
  • For the first time, she looked flustered.  (source)
    flustered = nervous or confused
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  • She gets so excited and flustered.  (source)
    flustered = nervous or confused
  • "What message?" said poor Mr. Baggins all in a fluster.  (source)
    fluster = nervous or confused condition
  • He got a kick out of flustering her, which, truthfully, wasn't really all that hard.†  (source)
    flustering = making nervous or confused
  • I wasn't expecting him to mention the text, and it flusters me that I can't tell what he's thinking.†  (source)
    flusters = makes nervous or confused
  • He has fallen the tiniest bit in love with Lydia and with the understated, unflustered way she entertains.†  (source)
    unflustered = not nervous or confused
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unflustered means not and reverses the meaning of flustered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Now, my sick fool Roderigo, Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out, To Desdemona hath to-night carous'd Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch: Three lads of Cyprus,—noble swelling spirits, That hold their honours in a wary distance, The very elements of this warlike isle,—Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups, And they watch too.†  (source)
  • 2ND JUROR [flustered]: Well, sure I've heard of it.  (source)
    flustered = nervous or confused
  • Uncomfortably, he rubbed an eye and sat back suddenly, with the fluster of a man who's spilled a drink on the table.†  (source)
    fluster = make nervous or confused
  • This sort of thing was gold but having a heavily armed soldier seemingly losing it was a hit flustering.†  (source)
    flustering = making nervous or confused
  • This flusters her so she drops the water pitcher on her foot.†  (source)
    flusters = makes nervous or confused
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