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comparative more disconcerting, superlative most disconcerting
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm. quotations examples
"You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond