Troublingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a troubling manner; causing one to be troubled

    "How they would pay for the project was, troublingly, left unstated."

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"How they would pay for the project was, troublingly, left unstated."

Etymology

From troubling + -ly.

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