Rattled in a sentence as an adjective

If you're easily rattled, even if telling the truth, the poly weeds that out.

The Newtown event rattled me as much as it probably did lots of people. To my surprise my friend, the Sheriff, said not to worry.

Sort of amusing that it's the lack of fixed schedule that really rattled him. Dude sounds like he could use a sabbatical himself.

I've been rattled by every job interview I've had. That includes interviews for roles that I'd been courted for.

We all rattled off a variety of things. The node community is actually pretty sane.

The observable fact that steam, contained, exerts force, has been around since the first lid rattled as the soup came to a boil. The ancient Greeks built toy steam engines that whirled brass globes.

For several weeks prior to the quake, the floating mirror periodically rattled. I found it baffling and couldn't figure out what was causing it.

Reason why was 2 things out of the 4 hours we spent together: When I asked him who he considered the father of CS he rattled off von Neuman, Djikstra and Knuth. Yeah, you can make that argument I suppose, but he knew who the influential people were.

There is a reason the powers that be are so rattled by these revelations: the tactical advantage they're currently enjoying is huge.

I was told by my manager that I was being too negative and was given a poor performance review, which really rattled me, so I gave up the "good fight". 9 months later, the project was canned because of scalability issues.

\n\nThis is an adult women, emotionally mature, still rattled by words of people she doesn't know. Again, she learned how to ignore and let the words slide, but again it was something she had to learn after going to the police over it.

From what we've seen Foxconn were so rattled by it that they are investing massively in robotic automation. To the detriment of hundreds of thousands of poorer workers and the millions that they impact.

I'd be surprised if the flash crash rattled people so much that it still has an effect on market confidence. Most peoples' 401ks are tied to the stock market, and the last thing we need is a generation of un-retireable people because they lost a lot of their retirement on the stock market.

During the press questioning the computer they were using froze up a bit and Anand became frustrated and rattled through his thinking out loud instead. The commentator then asks Anand something along the lines of "did you think through all of these complications?"

Instead he rattled on about how it was hard for him to nag people into seeing things his way and upset that all his effort went to waste. People who argue about the campaigns to tarnish Wikipedia's name and repeat the fact that Wikipedia still manages to be respectable and successful are right!

I think the industries built around copyright will be rattled, resized & otherwise changed but ultimately survive in some new form. I think that copyright infringement is not exactly the same as theft: it's an artificial system of rules that were engineered around a technological & political reality that no longer exist.

Weekly rattled off what appear to be significant costs: $150,000 to make three bathrooms compliant with the American Disabilities Act, $130,000 for fire sprinklers, and potentially thousands more in building permit fees and other improvements. "They want us to commit to a traffic study, build concrete walls around the dumpster and have the landlord re-***** the driveways," Weekly said.

Rattled definitions

adjective

thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)

See also: flustered perturbed