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UK
/pətˈɜːbɪŋ/
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[ US /pɝˈtɝbɪŋ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈtɝbɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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causing distress or worry or anxiety
a worrying time
a new and troubling thought
distressing (or disturbing) news
a disturbing amount of crime
a revelation that was most perturbing
lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
a worrying situation
in a particularly worrisome predicament
How To Use perturbing In A Sentence
- What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
- Still, the process, while far less perturbing than Grandma Moses feeling me up, was still a bit unnerving as I am naturally bashful when it comes to taking my clothes off in front of people. The DC Damsel: Lifting the Ladies: Adventures in Bra-Fitting
- A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.
- a revelation that was most perturbing
- Earlier approaches started with an elliptic orbit of the Moon round the Earth, assuming the Sun had no effect, then perturbing the orbit to take account of the gravitation of the Sun.
- The airport quality inn for one of the perturbing bay sententiously disjointedly hygrometer hedgerow, bristlegrass doojigger, has not truthfully immaculate a hamartia of symphony but that all scouser be resurgent. Rational Review
- NKOTBSB, a perturbing amalgamation of 90s boybands New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys, are also peddling their ballads on a global tour this spring. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here
- All other markers are subsequently placed in the bin into which they best fit by statistical procedures without perturbing the overall map order.
- This perturbing mix of architecture and the body is typical of Hatoum, renowned for her eerie transformations of familiar household stuff into potential instruments of torture. This week's new exhibitions
- Naturally, Critser found all this perturbing but, like most people, he was inured to the daily diet of doom and gloom fed to him by the press - all the more so since he belongs to its massed ranks himself.