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perturbed

adjective

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Troubled or unsettled.

The curator was perturbed by the unexplained gap in the inventory.
Dictionary practice example.
The perturbed editor pauses publication after noticing that the page would confuse readers already trying to understand an attribution problem.
From A Review and Its Corrections.
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