The word "discombobulation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of confusion or being overwhelmed, usually caused by something that is difficult to understand. For example, "The professor's lecture left most of us in a state of discombobulation."
It is understandable that you should have a right-wing bias but should it be so blatantly paraded by Bagehot?Related topics Le Monde Europe Tony Blair Labour Party (Britain) PortugalPATRICK MASSEYOrpington, KentSIR Bagehot is to be congratulated for his plucky enterprise in using the word "discombobulation" in describing the Tories.
It is understandable that you should have a right-wing bias but should it be so blatantly paraded by Bagehot PATRICK MASSEYOrpington, KentSIR Bagehot is to be congratulated for his plucky enterprise in using the word "discombobulation" in describing the Tories.
The serious point is that the prime minister's biggest stroke of luck has been the discombobulation of the party that opposes him.
It goes through a constant process of discombobulation as entrepreneurs invent new products and processes.
That safeguarded those policies but helped to thrust the Conservatives themselves into a confused, protracted purgatory.There are lots of reasons why Mr Brown may be leading his party towards a similar limbo: bad economic luck; shoddy prime-ministerial judgment; the discombobulation that any tribe is liable to suffer when a long-term leader departs; sheer exhaustion.
YOSHUA OKUN Drug use, casual sex, and boredom in the office may not be startling topics at this cultural moment, but Okun's installation addresses each with the right mixture of slickness and discombobulation.
After a moment of silent discombobulation, my mother reminded me that our regular lunch time was one-thirty.
Please remember, Chase, remember please remember, I adore you, my terrestrial saint, my angel wandering avenues, I'm your cancerous angel adrift, Janice December 18th My darling Chase, Now comes the winter of my discombobulation.
Rage stops thought; discombobulation turns to spectacular violence.
And it doesn't fully describe Lindstrøm's productions, which tend to be spacey in a neurological rather than cosmological sense: his music is engineered to mimic — or cause — the sensation of pleasurable discombobulation commonly associated with late-night dance floors.
