Out of countenance
Also found in: Idioms.
| not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. |
See also: Countenance
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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She came up to me, claimed me as an acquaintance, stared me out of countenance; and talked and laughed till I did not know which way to look.
Though I'm something of a naif - I blush, and am easily put out of countenance - I guess polemically I'm a libertarian, one who holds that looking is a feature of sexual license, and that images can't be made without desire of some kind.
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- oust
- ouster
- Ouster le main
- ousting
- oustiti
- out
- out-
- out and about
- out and away
- Out at
- Out at elbow
- Out from
- out front
- out in
- out loud
- out of
- Out of battery
- out of bounds
- out of breath
- Out of cess
- out of character
- out of commission
- Out of conceit with
- Out of countenance
- out of date
- Out of door
- out of doors
- Out of doubt
- Out of favor
- Out of frame
- out of gear
- out of hand
- out of harm's way
- Out of heart
- out of humor
- out of joint
- out of mind
- out of nothing
- Out of one's head
- Out of one's own head
- Out of one's time
- out of order
- out of place
- out of play
- out of pocket
- out of practice
- out of print
- Out of question
- Out of quiet
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- out of condition
- out of condition
- out of condition
- out of consideration
- out of consideration for
- out of consideration for (someone or something)
- out of consideration of
- out of consideration of (something)
- out of contention
- out of contention
- out of contention
- out of contention
- Out of Context
- Out of Context
- Out of Context Theater
- Out of Contract
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control
- Out of Control Action Plan
- Out of Control Action Plans
- Out of Control Area
- Out of Core
- Out of Core Clustering
- out of cotton-picking mind
- Out of countenance
- Out of Country
- Out of Country Registration and Voting
- Out of Course
- out of court
- out of court
- out of courtesy
- out of courtesy (to one)
- out of courtesy to
- out of courtesy to her
- out of courtesy to him
- out of courtesy to me
- out of courtesy to one
- out of courtesy to somebody
- out of courtesy to someone
- out of courtesy to them
- out of courtesy to us
- out of courtesy to you
- Out of Curiosity
- out of curl
- Out of Cycle
- Out of Cycle Request
- out of date
- out of date
- out of date
- out of date
- out of date
- out of date
- out of debt
- out of debt out of danger
- out of debt, out of danger
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