Meanings (ES + gloss)
desconcertante
Tending to discomfit (“embarrass greatly; upset the composure of, disconcert”).
From the first page of this book [Dark Rosaleen (1915) by M. E. Francis] to the last this shadow of things beyond human ken, this blind acceptance of powers that it would almost be…
Streaker, the housemaid, too, had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature. I am unable to say whether she was of an unusually lymphatic temperament, or what else was the matter…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
desconcertar • incomodar
To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
Don't worry. Your joke did not really discomfit me.
The Captain, with a half-guilty secret to confess, and with the prospect of a painful and stormy interview before him, entered Mr. Osborne's offices with a most dismal countenance…
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