Causing distress or worry or anxiety.
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Marie McNamara is his distressful wife and Lorraine Horgan his distressed daughter.
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To dream of an echo, portends that distressful times are upon you.
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O, a sick headache-sudden and distressful-hewas subject to them; poor Philip!
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Why, then, O king, hast thou come to such a distressful end?
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Silence followed, and Sidwell seemed to lose herself in distressful thought.
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When the lady knew this distressful adventure, straightway she fell to the ground.
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This event freed the lady from many distressful and humiliating obligations.
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Jefferson had done much and distressful thinking during the summer recess.
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She explained the articles of truce, Lilian listening with distressful hope.
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Suddenly she uttered a distressful cry and rose to her feet.
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A long pause, and apparently distressful hesitation, followed the difficult question.
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Hazel turned off with a gesture of distressful impatiencethen faced her guardian again.
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His meeting with some of his Countrymen, and their distressful Voyage.
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A distressful country, indeed, where the children do not own their own feet.
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For a woman, this dream implies distressful news and unfaithful friends.
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S: Surely we fear from our Lord a stern, distressful day.
