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Flustered

adjective

Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term). Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled.

Fluster

verb

(past & past part. flustered; pres. part. flustering)

Be flustered; behave in a confused manner.

Cause to be nervous or upset.

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"Flustered" Quotes from Famous Books

... meantime Mrs. Haines was flustered not only by the prospect of meeting her distinguished friend, but by the tumultuous staging of the great hold-up scene that was to mark Pauline's welcome. Hal had been up at three o'clock in the morning rehearsing the boys in their parts. He had set off at five ...

— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... and be the most quick and most prevailing method of giving young people a turn of sense and breeding. But as I have set up for a weekly historian, I resolve to be a faithful one; and therefore take this public occasion to admonish a young nobleman, who came flustered into the box last night, and let him know, how much all his friends were out of countenance for him. The women sat in terror of hearing something that should shock their modesty, and all the gentlemen in as much pain, out of compassion to the ...

— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

... noticed that he looked better and that he did not go to the remote rooms where he usually lived attended by Pitcher. He went into the library and sent for Mrs. Medlock. She came to him somewhat excited and curious and flustered. ...

— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... post she had coveted for years—that of receiving a fashionable assemblage in her own house; and if her choicest guests courted her notice as little as they would have done any where else, she was too much elated and flustered, and overheated to think about it. One of her principal concerns was to keep her eye on her husband, who, being a shy, timid man, with very little tact, was not much calculated for playing the host on such an occasion. He had, however, been doing better ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... that look as if they ought to accompany butterfly nets and contain entomological specimens. But they are usually in the hands of a stout alpaca-clad middle-class mater-familias, who looks rather anxious and flustered while she herds her flock and hunts for a garden with the announcement, "Hier koennen Familien Kaffee kochen." There for a trifling indemnity she can be accommodated with seats, cups and saucers, and hot water; just as people can in an English tea-garden. Provisions she has with her in her Pickenick ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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