Similar words: distressing, pressingly, depressingly, distress signal, distress, distressed, buttressing, distressful. Meaning: adv. unpleasantly.
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1. He went on to be distressingly adamant about his determination to marry a virgin.
2. Much of the vast neo-Darwinian literature is distressingly uncritical.
3. He died distressingly by the sword.
4. What is becoming distressingly obvious to Kosovo's Albanians is that, despite declaring independence, their future is still tied to Serbia's.
5. The distressingly plausible Mr. Cameron will get the boot, to be replaced by an unelectable right-winger --- this disqualifying the Tories from office for another decade.
6. "The rate of human death is distressingly high with Indonesia increasingly becoming the country which causes all of us, including the Indonesian authorities, very great concern," Nabarro said.
7. A distressingly large number of today's young have found nothing to strive for beyond a day-to-day pursuit of comfort and pleasure.
8. Therefore, Eros in its present orbit can cross the orbit of Mars and pass distressingly close to Earth.
9. But while the French may have left behind great cuisine, they did not prepare the country well for independence, leaving Madagascar distressingly poor and politically volatile.sentencedict.com/distressingly.html
10. At the moment, the world's pandemic - alert system is distressingly secretive.
11. Even when poor people have access, the quality of services is distressingly low.
12. Perhaps. The overall tax bill from the industry might not be so distressingly low.
13. I still experience negative feelings, though it doesn't happen as oftenas distressingly as before.
14. It's now becoming clear that policy makers in U.S. and Europe also made errors that are contributing to today's distressingly bleak economic outlook.
15. But it should also note that the world's top universities are non-profit bodies, and that Chile is distressingly far from providing equal opportunities for its people.
16. CG : Dream - 1 - 7 , 1 - 8 , and 1 - 9 . Hisui trying to hold back tears is distressingly cute.
17. Only Mulligan, so charming as the precocious teen in An Education, is distressingly wan and weak as the token saint; we'll wait for further films to see which film was the correct clue to her talents.
18. As might be expected under such circumstances, the literature on this deliberately mysterious country tends to be polarized and politicized, with the ratio of opinion to fact often distressingly high.
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