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Meanings of distressingly in English
Spanish
desagradablemente Usage of distressingly in English
1
His right hand flexed around air, because his sword was distressingly absent.
2
The collapses had become distressingly frequent with the last year or two.
3
He was conscious of having been surprised in a distressingly ridiculous situation.
4
And it was far more distressingly horrible than anything I had anticipated.
5
So again at his first meeting with Elizabeth, Carlos is distressingly mawkish.
6
There were many setbacks, and progress was distressingly slow but nevertheless sure.
7
On reaching this place Mrs. Yeobright felt distressingly agitated, weary, and unwell.
8
Its present state, indeed even its immediate future, is dark, distressingly dark.
9
He was the voice of the fantastically hilarious, distressingly old Mermaid Man.
10
During them, constituents air grievances while sitting on distressingly cheap office furniture.
11
Hence, physical activity is distressingly low among patients new to dialysis.
12
Words, both in the uttered and the written version, dimmed it all distressingly.
13
It's difficult to dislike Clive James, but distressingly easy to dislike his fiction.
14
For spies were at that time looming distressingly large in the public mind.
15
Both sexes are distressingly plain; I saw only one pretty girl amongst them.
16
The future is not such a distressingly unknown quantity as it was then.
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