DISCONCERTINGLY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Disconcertingly

... rising and falling of infant voices. At last, thinking that my good-bye must be to Johnny only, I rose to go. You might reasonably ask for a clearer impression of his home and a more definite account of his wife. But what can I say when the primary address was so disconcertingly to the ear? Of his wife—who came down, during a lull, at the last moment—I can only say that she seemed too empressee at the beginning and too casual at the end. Perhaps she had decided that, after all, I was no ...

— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller

... scrupulous and slow in determining what to do, his confidences often were withheld from others till the last moment, and sometimes beyond the moment, when it would have been wisest to admit his colleagues to his own counsel. In consequence he often appeared disconcertingly ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell