disarmingly

American  

[dis-ahrm-ing-lee] / dɪsˈɑrm ɪŋ li /

adverb

1. in a way that disarms, or encourages people to feel less defensive, afraid, hostile, etc.

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Example Sentences

To her right stood Brandon Ross, whose searing yet disarmingly tender electric guitar tones built like waves, exploded like starbursts or sketched lines of staggering intricacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Banton is disarmingly human - a welcome trait within the current set-up.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

The film sensitively and disarmingly refuses to other the subculture at its core — a clever way of making the particular feel universal.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

But this holiday season, I’d like to propose a gentle pivot back toward something both nostalgic and disarmingly charming: the cheese ball.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan