Example Sentences

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Any sign of distress from his mother would very likely have been disconcerting to Murray, who had already been on edge during this tournament.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2016

But the closing minutes, with Kentucky way out in front, must have been disconcerting to the Bluegrass faithful.

From Newsweek • Mar. 12, 2011

Yet another surprise "breakthrough" that discarded the carefully wrought strategies of deterrence could have been disconcerting.

From Time Magazine Archive

To be told that he knew the trail must have been disconcerting to the man, but not one word did he say in reference to it.

From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack

Sometimes he looked at her with a steadfast gaze, which would have been disconcerting if it had not been so simple and childlike.

From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir