disconcerting
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Adjective
Causing one to feel unsettled,
/ˌdiskənˈsərtiNG/,
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Causing one to feel unsettled,
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Causing one to feel unsettled
- - he had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties
Web Definitions:
- causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- (disconcertingly) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner; "he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her"
- Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting
- Ominous? As alien a pair of words as I can think of to describe Manhattan's skyscrapers. And consider, the tallest skyscrapers in Sanborn's New York were ten stories high! ...