Meanings
- uncountableAnxious embarrassment
Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.
1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree1 more example
One of the reasons that Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-wee himself, caused so much disconcertion was that the world the characters inhabited was supposedly childlike and innocent, which, in our warped culture, means not sexual. But Pee-wee displayed that "innocence" as little more than sexual repression.
1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 6
Synonyms & antonyms
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