disconcert
verb (used with object)
to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle.
had been disconcerting
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past perfect progressiveof disconcert.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The first 10 minutes of USC’s tournament debut had been disconcerting enough already.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2025
He flopped comfortably into the chair which had been disconcerting his father.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
The cat had been disconcerting, but the appearance of this man, whom she knew quite well, who might talk, might question her, might walk back beside her, seemed fatally disconcerting.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Her ways had been disconcerting at first, but Phil had grown used to them.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
