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Distressfully

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a distressful way; showing distress

    "[4] And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with distress wordnet

Etymology

From distressful + -ly.

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