as in embarrassing
causing embarrassment
a disconcerting habit of chewing with his mouth open
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as in confusing
to throw into a state of self-conscious distress
we were disconcerted by the unexpected changes to the program
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Recent Examples of disconcerting
Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
Calculations on how many homeowners are at risk and how many are covered vary, but all are disconcerting.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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Russia was becoming more closed, and this was disconcerting for a generation that had grown up in a modernized and relatively open society.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
Calculations on how many homeowners are at risk and how many are covered vary, but all are disconcerting.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disconcerting
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Usually such open nepotism would be seen as slightly embarrassing, but not to this crowd.Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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This is a funny commentary on our embarrassing listens, and the random rabbit holes and deep cuts people lean into — and the silent majority influence of podcasters.EW.com, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Those numbers might have been a tad uncomfortable to handle, and the markets didn’t want to take inflation hot to go.Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
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Trading either man may be the sort of franchise-altering decision that some are uncomfortable executing.Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
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Fentanyl abuse isn't the only opioid that can cause the awkward body reaction, Ciccarone said.James Ward, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Read More: The Surprising Benefits of Talking Out Loud to Yourself Things might feel a little awkward during those early sessions, and that's normal, says Grant.Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
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One of the more disturbing results was from the dinner party at the Brooklyn apartment of my ProPublica colleague.Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
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Duchamp spent the last twenty years of his life working in secret on a three-dimensional tableau vivant of a naked, headless female body in a realistic landscape, a strangely disturbing image that is both a summary of his meta-retinal art and a total departure from it.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Almost everyone is bitter, unpleasant, scheming, self-centered, manipulative or awful (or just plain crazy).Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The news, predictably, was unpleasant: the Olympic roster was about to leak, and Clark wasn’t on it.Sean Gregory, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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An at least 200-year-old celebration of French and Mediterranean cuisine, macarons are renowned as the ‘impossible dessert,’ a result of the notoriously involved and difficult baking process.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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So trying to get your voice there and control the inflections and all was very difficult.Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Disconcerting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disconcerting. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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