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are flustered
adjective
Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion.
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Compliance departments are "flustered" by the new rules, says Octavio Marenzi of Celent, a consulting firm specialising in financial services.
Mr. Dean is thin, excitable and hungry looking, and some white people drinking uptown are flustered by his staccato hard sell.
The young princes are beaten up on the street and bullied at school; they are flustered by the Dutch Christmas custom of blackface Black Peters who birch the naughty while St. Nicholas rewards the nice.
They apologize when they bump into you, when you bump into them, when they walk into doors, when they drop things, when they want to speak, when they are flustered, when they disagree, when they are brushing past you, when they cannot hear, when they can hear all too well and as a reflex when they cannot think of what else to say.
You are flustered or frustrated but not flustrated.
Never make it look like you are flustered or losing your composure.
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The Mets were flustered.
The receptionist is flustered.
Nieminen was flustered.
Some were flustered.
"Obviously, he's flustered.
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