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disturbingly

[ UK /dɪstˈɜːbɪŋli/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɝbɪŋɫi/ ]
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  1. in a disturbing manner
    the details of the kidnaper's letter had sounded disturbingly convincing

How To Use disturbingly In A Sentence

  • Plus, we stayed up a bit late, drinking vino and back-yarding and chitter-chattering Barzak and I have lived disturbingly parallel lives. Forlorn
  • It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
  • A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
  • Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized. Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
  • The entire outside of the building is lit up every night in a disturbingly bright shade of aubergine.
  • Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
  • Most disturbingly for friends and relatives, the disappearances have been seized upon by religious zealots in what they say is an attempt to have the men killed. Times, Sunday Times
  • That final resting place of ponderous pachyderms would be, for the unscrupulous and disturbingly clean bad guy, the mother lode of ivory.
  • I looked forlornly past the celebratory bottle of champagne, consoling myself that it could be saved for New Years, and selected a bottle of Barbados dark rum from my disturbingly overstocked bar.
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