Definition of "perturbing" []

• Present participle of perturb. (verb)

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• "What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports."
• "Still, the process, while far less perturbing than Grandma Moses feeling me up, was still a bit unnerving as I am naturally bashful when it comes to taking my clothes off in front of people."
• "Filmmaker Liz Canner took on the subject of the female orgasm and pharmaceutical companies in her film 2009 Orgasm, Inc. I interviewed Ms. Canner regarding her film as well as a couple of well-known psychoanalysts on the topic of women's sexuality, the medicalization of female sexual desire and the perturbing idea of the "right" kind of orgasm."