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dis·arm·ing

(dĭs-är′mĭng)

adj.

Tending to allay suspicion or hostility; winning favor or confidence: a disarming smile.

dis·arm′ing·ly adv.

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Translations

بِصورَةٍ مُلَطِّفه للغَضَب

odzbrojujícím způsobem

entwaffnend

á heillandi hátt

odzbrojujúco

dostça

使消除敌意地

disarmingly

[dɪsˈɑːmɪŋlɪ] ADV [smile] → encantadoramente; [frank] → apabullantemente
he was disarmingly modest → era tan modesto que (te) desarmaba

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

disarmingly

adv → entwaffnend; disarmingly simple → verblüffend einfach

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

disarmingly

[dɪsˈɑːmɪŋlɪ] adv → in modo disarmante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

disarm

(disˈaːm) verb

1. to take away weapons from. He crept up from behind and managed to disarm the gunman.

2. to get rid of weapons of war. Not until peace was made did the victors consider it safe to disarm.

3. to make less hostile; to charm.

disˈarmament noun

the act of doing away with war-weapons.

disˈarming adjective

charming. a disarming smile.

disˈarmingly adverb

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References in classic literature ?

But then," she added disarmingly, "I suppose I shouldn't have known if he was clever."

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Clash between Western and traditional values is never far from the surface, though debates are conducted in a disarmingly non-confrontational way.

The Day I Will Never Forget

Kate Clinton is one of our most disarmingly sensible comic voices.

Correct Me If I'm Right

In Bearded Clam, 1997, a disarmingly tacky Neptunian realm contains two women making love inside a gaping mollusk; in one view it's a crude visual pun, in another an affecting, erotic fantasyscape.

Frank Moore; Sperone westwater

There's no speech here; helmer's disarmingly blunt ruminations are laid out in artfully timed/placed captions, while Paul Dresher's chamber score provides luminous accompaniment.

MMI: a Chronicle of Time

"SPEAK as you find", my mum always said - and I have to say I've always found Katie Price disarmingly honest and very likeable whenever I've met her.

THE PRICE OF FAME

What he takes from the old masters is disarmingly general, "a love of pictures" (Wall sees the arts of photography, film, and painting as a single pictorial tradition), "which I believe is at the same time a love of nature and of existence itself, and an idea of the size and scale proper to pictorial art, and so proper to the ethical feeling for the world expressed in pictorial art." How to express this love of nature and of existence?

Portfolio: Jeff Wall

Thanks to its disarmingly amusing depiction of how rap sprang to life on the streets, and to the exhilarating competition at the club, "8 Mile" also has the potential to allow the unconverted--and even those hostile to rap in general and Eminem in particular--to "get" rap once and for all.

Mum crix smile over `Mile'. (Inside Moves)

Her singular style makes for a disarmingly intimate, boldly individual and imaginative album.

MUSIC: ALBUMS

Creed's disarmingly honest rationale could equally apply to Mathew Sawyer, a recent graduate of London's Royal College of Art whose gentle and unassuming, if somewhat melancholy, works have recently been seen in group shows in London and San Francisco.

Matthew Higgs on Mathew Sawyer. (First Take)

Subjects are disarmingly unpretentious; sometimes hilarious perf segs span their history.

WHAT ABOUT ME: THE RISE OF THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND

We also see the older, more worldly Fanny, penning her memoirs with a saucy glint in her eye and challenging the viewer with her disarmingly direct questions: "So what do you think of that?" "Well, what was your first time like?"