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Meanings of distressingly in English

Spanish
desagradablemente

Unpleasantly.

desagradablemente
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Examples for "painfully"
Examples for "painfully"
1
But the second movie in particular felt almost painfully true to me.
The Guardian
2
But potential investors said the process had been painfully slow so far.
Reuters
3
It is painfully obvious that the new data says it isn't true.
Wired
4
Working information out of the madmen was a painfully long, anxious process.
Cities in Flight
5
The decision had been easy, but the reality was painfully red hot.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
Usage of distressingly in English
1
His right hand flexed around air, because his sword was distressingly absent.
The irish warrior
2
The collapses had become distressingly frequent with the last year or two.
South Wind
3
He was conscious of having been surprised in a distressingly ridiculous situation.
The Mystery of Orcival
4
And it was far more distressingly horrible than anything I had anticipated.
Three John Silence Stories
5
So again at his first meeting with Elizabeth, Carlos is distressingly mawkish.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
6
There were many setbacks, and progress was distressingly slow but nevertheless sure.
A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the...
7
On reaching this place Mrs. Yeobright felt distressingly agitated, weary, and unwell.
The Return of the Native
8
Its present state, indeed even its immediate future, is dark, distressingly dark.
The Promised Day Is Come
9
He was the voice of the fantastically hilarious, distressingly old Mermaid Man.
The Irish Times
10
During them, constituents air grievances while sitting on distressingly cheap office furniture.
The Guardian
11
Hence, physical activity is distressingly low among patients new to dialysis.
Pubmed
12
Words, both in the uttered and the written version, dimmed it all distressingly.
The Centaur
13
It's difficult to dislike Clive James, but distressingly easy to dislike his fiction.
The Irish Times
14
For spies were at that time looming distressingly large in the public mind.
In the Claws of the German Eagle
15
Both sexes are distressingly plain; I saw only one pretty girl amongst them.
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
16
The future is not such a distressingly unknown quantity as it was then.
Mary Ware's Promised Land
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