disturbing

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The one thing that I find the most disturbing is American imperialism.

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  • Sea slugs are big and purple and kind of disturbing, the way they blob and slide along.
  • While the facts underlying the dispute are disturbing, they are, unfortunately, all too common occurrences for hosts. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • I do not know which is more disturbing, her and Barak, or the constituency they are trying to please. —  KABOBfest
  • In a move that is both remarkable and disturbing, the European Commission plans to file a complaint - and threaten protectionist trade barriers - because attractive Swiss tax policies are supposedly a violation of a free-trade accord. —  thecookscottage
  • Even if one dismisses the notion that these documents are being released as part of a deliberate attempt to smear informed Americans as dangerous political enemies of the state, what we are left with is almost equally as disturbing, which is the fact that the people supposedly leading the "war on terror" on the home front have the same level of detective and criminology skills as Barney the Purple Dinosaur. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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disturbing:   disturb ·  disturbed ·  disturbs
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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