disconcertingly

Adverb

Meaning

in a disturbing or embarrassing manner

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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. Will Self

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. Robert Adams

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home. Donna Tartt

In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane. Alan Judd

he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her Source: Internet

Apparently determining that I was not worthy of such grandeur, it insisted on bringing me on a more ‘offbeat’ route, marked out by boggy backroad and yawning pothole, and disconcertingly untroubled by signs of life. Source: Internet

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