disarmingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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From a distance, her Chanel outfit looked disarmingly simple: a sheer zip-up jacket and what appeared to be a pair of low-slung jeans.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
To her right stood Brandon Ross, whose searing yet disarmingly tender electric guitar tones built like waves, exploded like starbursts or sketched lines of staggering intricacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
The scene is quiet, domestic, almost disarmingly ordinary.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
The film sensitively and disarmingly refuses to other the subculture at its core — a clever way of making the particular feel universal.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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