It shook the girl distressingly, but she made no sign; only she took one swift look at Andrew, and noted that he had suddenly changed from a boy into a man, with a brave, grave face.
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Distressingly
Synonyms for "distressingly" (64 found)
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hellishlyhorriblyimproperlyinexcusablyinfernallyinordinatelyintolerablylamentablymiserablynakedlyopenlypainfullypatheticallypiteouslypitiablyruefullysadlyshatteringlyshockinglysomething awful
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Adverb(1 words)
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1 entriesadverb of manner
Collocations
6 entriesdistressingly commondistressingly complexdistressingly highdistressingly inaccuratedistressingly lowdistressingly simple
Inflections
2 entriesmore distressinglymost distressingly
Derivations
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
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