Worrisomely

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a worrisome way.

    "But in the Met’s revival of Mary Zimmerman ’s 2007 production of this Donizetti work, they give almost the classic definition of uneven performances: sometimes wondrously beautiful, sometimes worrisomely shaky."

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"But in the Met’s revival of Mary Zimmerman ’s 2007 production of this Donizetti work, they give almost the classic definition of uneven performances: sometimes wondrously beautiful, sometimes worrisomely shaky."

Etymology

From worrisome + -ly.

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