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Disconcertingly

adverb
1.
In a disturbing or embarrassing manner.





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"Disconcertingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Disconcertingly from an upper window the Older Man's face beamed suddenly down upon him. "Oh, don't mind anything she says," drawled the Older Man. "It's just her cunning, ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... civilities, bowed, took a folding-table and chair from behind the door, put the former between himself and Bert, sat down on the latter, coughed drily, and opened his portfolio. Then he put his elbows on the table, pinched his lower lip with his two fore-fingers, and regarded Bert disconcertingly with magnified eyes. "You came to us, Herr Pooterage, against your will," he said ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... misfortunes. Instinctively she felt that he had gained a moral confidence in himself. His physical excellence and ability had always been manifest. This morning, his grave, dark eyes, upturned to her face as he caressed Boyar, were disconcertingly straightforward. He seemed to be drinking his fill of her beauty. His quick smile, still boyish, and altogether irresistible, flashed as she spoke humorously of his conquest of the ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs


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