unnerved

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• Neither is unnerved by her apparent anger, nor do they see her as threatening.

• Pryor had yet to become the volatile social satirist who unnerved white industry executives and delighted black audiences.

• These conclusions unnerved Kelley and eventually led him to change the focus of his career from psychiatry to criminology.

• U.S. officials are unnerved that they have not been able to pinpoint a specific target.

• He was unnerved when he hired a grand master to tutor her in chess and, after a few months of lessons, she started beating Shaw.

• The gesture unnerved him for a moment, and he had to go thumbing over the page to find his place.

• Probably the death of Akhab Khan had unnerved her, and she dared not trust to the mercy of the victors.

• Paralysis has unnerved and unstrung the whole system and yet the mind has remained uninjured.

• His chagrin, his wounded self-love, his mortification at the unexpected turn of affairs unnerved him.

• By the time the enemy had reached our camps many regiments had become partially formed, but they were all unnerved by the shock.