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n. - Anxious embarrassment.

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Usage examples (23)
  • He grabbed another doughnut to mask his disconcertment.
  • He could not but look at her with disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away.
  • They waited, heavy-breathed, while Harrigan began to recover from the disconcertment into which O'Mara's coming had flung him.
  • It was a mingled emotion, but if some drops for her own disconcertment were mingled with the warm prompting of pity, her compassion was none the less true.
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