Creative writing

Bewildered (hämmingus)

Everyone knows — except the depraved and corrupt — that obscenity depraves and corrupts all who condone or delight in it…but when a jury hears [that]they must decide whether, taken as a whole, it has a tendency to deprave and corrupt…they are easily bewildered and confused….
Circumspect (ettevaatlik)

Disorientated (segaduses)

She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed, disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her.

Distraught (hullunud)

A DISTRAUGHT oil worker wrapped a cartridge belt around his waist and placed the barrels of a loaded shotgun in his mouth during a three-day police siege at a remote country cottage.

Overawed (hirmutatud)

Individuals can be overawed by the thought of the very large system.
Overwhelmed (üle koormatud)

Preoccupied (hõivatud)

Attempts to reconstruct the ethnogenesis of the peoples of Siberia have preoccupied many Russian scholars.

Uneasy (rahutu)

A multi-racial couple in the crowd look distinctly uneasy.

Unnerved (paanikas)

It unnerved Lorton, as he had been unnerved as a boy to hear the priest say that bread and wine was changed through the magic of the mass into flesh and blood

Withdrawn (tagasi tõmbunud)

When the ladies had withdrawn from the dinner-table, a conversation began about the Highlanders and their linen.