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