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• v  cause to feel embarrassment
• v  cause to lose one's composure
• s  causing an emotional disturbance
  his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen

• For Edwards, who has basically been living in Iowa (and who parlayed a second-place finish there in 2004 into a spot on the Democratic ticket), the results have to be disconcerting.
• In 2005, Edinburgh Zoo issued a public notice after several panicked Scots reported a non-venomous spider called a "false black widow" that had a disconcerting behavior of .
• What one found disconcerting, though, "was Speransky's cold, mirror-like gaze, which let no one penetrate to his soul and a too great contempt for people.

• confuse
• flurry
• disconcert
• put off
• upset
• discompose
• untune
• discomfit
• upsetting

News & Articles

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• Mike Hashimoto: Be sure to read all of Scalia decision overturning Arizona law
  It has to be a slightly disconcerting day for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's usual cast of knee-jerk critics - the ones who calibrate their reaction to rulings by which side he's on.
  June 17, 2013 - Dallas Morning News
• Is it Too Late to Tackle Global Warming?
  Global greenhouse-gas emissions rose to record levels in 2012, the International Energy Agency said in a report released last week. Especially disconcerting is the news from May that carbon-dioxide levels reached 400 parts per million "for the first time in several hundred millennia," the report states.
  June 17, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News
• Antarctic Ice Shelves Melt Mostly From Below
  When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting — and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become smaller. But new research reveals a disconcerting finding that is invisible to the naked eye: These ice shelves primarily melt from below.
  June 13, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in International Herald Tribune
  How disconcerting the claim that the termination of life is a matter of reproductive health,Benedict said.
• Gillian Anderson in guardian.co.uk
  It was a little odd,Anderson told Newsweek for its July 21 issue. "It was more disconcerting than I anticipated. I expected it to be a breeze. But I tried so hard since the series ended to do things as different as possible from the...
• Stephen Harper in TheChronicleHerald.ca
  We see little slivers of good news but I would agree with you, there continues to be - we see it in Canada - downward revisions on output and employment. It is disconcerting,Harper said. "And all the more reason I think if anything leaders...