Disconcerting in a sentence as an adjective

In any case, it is disconcerting to see.

It's a bit disconcerting to discover that apparently it isn't.

Needless to say, I found that to be even more disconcerting than the existence of the character limit.

I'm a employee of a large tech company that's being parodied here, and I found this really disconcerting. The scenes with the boss and HR are completely different to my experience.

- The unified menu bar makes sense and saves space, but it's still somewhat disconcerting to someone who is used to their menus having some spatial context with what they are controlling. - I've always hated the "three gumballs".

Microsoft's API churn must be disconcerting for developers trying to figure out what to standardize on going forward. This is yet another API for writing Windows apps.

It was so disconcerting that last year many people became concerned about her wellbeing and tried to track her down, eventually learning that she was "ok" but working "through" her depression. This has been the first update of her blog/comic since then.

It's very disconcerting, because nearly everyone treats contracts as a "take it or leave it" affair. Sure, when you're getting a new phone, the employee doesn't have the power to agree to alter the contract, but in many cases you can do it.

This is extremely disconcerting. What we know and now see confirmed officially about the surveillance is pretty stunning.

Releasing a product as soon as it was announced would be odd and slightly disconcerting. I'll bet a decent amount that if it were to happen, the blog posts wouldn't be effusive praise, from Gruber or Thurott or whomever.

I find it quite disconcerting that someone else gets to decide what aspects of my friend's lives are 'interesting' enough for me to know about. I find it even more disconcerting that some of my friends would need to pay to highlight some aspects of their lives to me.

For many of us teachers, this is somewhat disconcerting. Gamification is fine when students are trying to save Zelda, but its more problematic when math becomes an obstacle, and eighth grade just another level.

The ageism in your post is disconcerting. On one hand you equate youth with innovation, age with stagnation, and on the other you posit that overworking youth for below market wages is simply a cost of doing business.

The historical revisionism among the Appleistas is a bit disconcerting. This is not a matter of the "suits" overruling Jobs' "pirates".

However, I find it disconcerting how ALL companies seem to be edging towards creating and storing a mass of data about individuals without disclosing the entire purpose, what is held, or how to access it. With that in mind, this is a great article/link.

Even if the latter is the case, it is disconcerting that elected officials cannot convey basic information about the laws they vote for to their constituents.

I value the content HN has in the way of articles posted and comments made, but the amount of vitriol I see is really disconcerting. I can stomach it, try to soak up the info and move on, but it's so unnecessary and rarely adds anything to the conversation.

Somewhat disconcerting that I am a Dropbox customer, yet neither the breach nor the explanation has been communicated to me by email; I've had to find out about it by reading HN.

There's an extremely disconcerting email monoculture emerging around gmail. Practically everyone I exchange email with uses gmail.

There are two disconcerting trends I see in the NSA wiretapping fiasco independent of whether wiretapping is a good idea, a necessary evil, or a bad idea. The first is the amount of effort it takes to get very basic level of information regarding NSA activities, even when those activities are known to exist.

Your muscle memory tells you how to reach the wiper stalk or the gear shift, which is why it's sometimes disconcerting to get into a car with the gears on the steering column if you normally shift in the center console. We need in-car systems that let the physical feedback, affordances, and reliable location of buttons, knobs, and switches interact with display systems that are designed for the attention a driver requires.

Many people, myself included, find the idea of effective immortality to be disconcerting. But all of the arguments have been made and rebutted: Just because we can't imagine immortality doesn't mean that isn't a good thing, if we were born into a world without death we wouldn't give it up for any of the advantages of mortality, we would have more productive time to solve the problems of overpopulation, etc and so forth.

Most sites on the Internet are still primarily sources of information, and it's rather disconcerting to see "appification" turning easily accessible pages containing text and images into complex behemoths that only work in the latest browsers from the big vendors. I know there is a certain allure to using the "latest technologies" for many developers, but if it needlessly excludes some others, there's a marginalising, discriminatory element to it that I just can't agree with.

Disconcerting definitions

adjective

causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"

See also: upsetting