distressingly

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Most distressingly, the game crashed three times, all between late innings.

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  • It was disturbingly, distressingly, all too familiar Lynne the bartender frowned at them. —  AnalogSFF,September2007
  • There was one door to the room and it was surrounded by heavy copper rods that were a high-voltage protective device designed to electrocute, perhaps not fatally, but at least distressingly, anyone who entered when the juice was on Monk and Ham were near the door. —  114 - The Three Wild Men
  • Whether these legal documents were made by a blogger, a private detective or a doctor, the effects sadly and most distressingly were the same in the law, politics or blind faith.
  • Lucia of Fatima described so well (46), cannot fail to remind us-distressingly-of the mystery of universal redemption brought about by the Redeemer and by the Coredemptrix: universal redemption rendered vain by hell, into which souls fall on account of a lack of the application of redeeming grace to them as individual persons, because of their indisposition in respect to its reception. —  Latest Articles
  • More distressingly, Jim Bunning has, in the past, expressed support for a new national sales tax that would disproportionately affect middle-class and working families. —  BlueGrassRoots - Front Page
 

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