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Definition
disrupt composure — such as to confuse or worry
- How could she face her parents, get back her box, and disconcert the whole scheme for the rehabilitation of her family on such sentimental grounds?1 — The Maiden (72% in)
- Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.5 — The Woman Pays (69% in)
There are no more uses of "disconcerting" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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