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  • adverb In a disturbing manner.

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  • adverb in a disturbing manner

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Examples

  • She is tall, slender, and strong; has dark hair, dressed so as to look like hair and not like a bird's nest or a pantaloon's wig (fashion wavering just then between these two models); has unexpectedly narrow, subtle, dark-fringed eyes that alter her expression disturbingly when she is excited and flashes them wide open; is softly impetuous in her speech and swift in her movements; and is just now in mortal anxiety.

    The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • He has the knack of coining disturbingly odd images: one character's conscience is a "moving carpet of cockroaches", while another is condemned for having "the soul of a cocktail pianist".

    Evening Standard - Home Henry Hitchings 2011

  • His expression looked disturbingly like he was studying a very strange, and potentially dangerous, insect.

    Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003

  • SBS claims a DNA test found 99.7% human stuff crammed inside the tablets-which Google disturbingly translates as "man capsules"-and was fresh enough to distinguish gender.

    Gizmodo Sam Biddle 2011

  • A 2004 truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) report, recommended that the country's head of state apologises to women and acknowledge their suffering during the war, but Amnesty said "disturbingly" government has failed to do so.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • If he did that kind of disturbingly psychotic view on the fanbase, he would, at the very least, reflect it a little bit on his interviews and when people meet him at cons.

    Writers: Do they try to put in hidden messages to their followers? 2007

  • For the weeklong period ending on Tuesday, the HRC said the PWV area accounted for a "disturbingly" high violence toll of 23 deaths.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • According to Ajay Chada of Ignition, Epic's Unreal 3 Engine brings the strange world of Blacklight: Tango Down to life with "disturbingly" detailed, old-world architecture.

    TG Daily Aharon Etengoff 2010

  • But it said non-residential plans passed had plummeted "disturbingly", recording a minus 20.3 percent seasonally adjusted month-on-month growth, while year-on-year growth plunged from minus 2.7 percent in October to minus 32.8 percent across all categories of non-residential building.

    IOL: News 2010

  • Now, I don't even like Favre that much, and I'll still be hoping for the Saints to make it to the Super Bowl, but this kind of disturbingly biased crap is not suitable to be posted on any website, let alone a major one.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2010

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