disconcert
verb (used with object)
to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle.
have disconcerted
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present perfectof disconcert.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Rosalynn Carter may have disconcerted her somewhat formal South American hosts by speaking so casually on her recent tour of what "Jimmy" thought and what "Jimmy" meant to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
What would have disconcerted or rendered furious an ordinary person did not move the spirit of Beaumarchais.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
The defeat of the French fleet would certainly totally have disconcerted the great plans which the enemies had formed in the East and West Indies.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
They would not have disconcerted her; nothing ever did.
From Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
He would have disconcerted the foreign powers, augmented his popularity, centuplicated his forces: but on the first of June it was too late: the additional act had appeared.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
