All 10 Uses of
disconcerting
in
Bleak House
- He was disconcerted and walked to the window; I almost believed with an intention of jumping out, until he turned and I was reassured by seeing in his eyes what he had gone there to hide.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip.†
Chpt 22-24
- His once more reddening through his brown and being disconcerted by his efforts to remember the association brought my guardian to his relief.†
Chpt 22-24
- The present effect of this flight of oratory—much admired for its general power by Mr. Chadband's followers—being not only to make Mr. Chadband unpleasantly warm, but to represent the innocent Mr. Snagsby in the light of a determined enemy to virtue, with a forehead of brass and a heart of adamant, that unfortunate tradesman becomes yet more disconcerted and is in a very advanced state of low spirits and false position when Mr. Chadband accidentally finishes him.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Well, sir," says the trooper, looking into his hat after another disconcerted pause, "I am sorry not to have given you more satisfaction.†
Chpt 25-27
- Then coughs his cough of trouble and says, "This is a dreadful mystery, my love!" still fearfully disconcerted by Mrs. Snagsby's eye.†
Chpt 31-33
- The disconcerted young man bows, as he goes out, and cringingly hopes that Mr. Tulkinghorn of the Fields is well.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Tony," says Mr. Guppy, a little disconcerted, "to be unreserved with you, I don't greatly relish the house, except in your company, and therefore I have not; and therefore I proposed this little appointment for our fetching away your things.†
Chpt 37-39
- He was not in the least disconcerted by our appearance, but rose and received us in his usual airy manner.†
Chpt 43-45
- I was much disconcerted, but I reflected that if the main point were gained, it mattered little how strangely he perverted everything leading to it.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(disconcerting) disrupt composure -- such as to confuse or worry