disarray

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It could even spell long-term disarray, if not outright doom, for the modern Republican Party and its unique brand of lockstep asininity.

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  1. noun A state of disorder; confusion.
  2. noun Disorderly dress.
  3. transitive verb To throw into confusion; upset.
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  • Sean was satisfied that whoever had set them up would be convinced that their disarray was the natural result of the previous evening's firefight. —  EQMM,June2007
  • It could even spell long-term disarray, if not outright doom, for the modern Republican Party and its unique brand of lockstep asininity. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • That kind of disarray, when facing a resurgent Taliban that has the wind at its back and unity and determination on its side, is a recipe for disaster. —  China Matters
  • With the capitalist mode of production in disarray, the working class would surely rise to the occasion.
  • Adding to the disarray, a draft of the agreement Brown hopes to secure was leaked to a German news magazine, prompting suggestions of "dirty tricks" by Berlin. —  Pat Dollard | Young Americans
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  1. from Old French desareer, desareier, desarreier, desaroyer, desarroyer, etc., from des- privative + areer, areier, etc., array: see dis- privative and array, v. Cf. deray.
  2. from Middle English disaray, disray, desray, from Old French *desrrei, desarroi, desroi, F. désarroi, disorder; from the verb: see disarray, v., and cf. deray, n., and array, n.
 

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