Worryingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a worrying manner

    "[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a manner to cause worry wordnet

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"[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern."

Etymology

From worrying + -ly.

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