worrisome

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"Most worrisome is the recent collapse in pricing power - a record over one-third of respondents now say they are cutting prices for their goods and services."

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  1. adjective Causing worry or anxiety.
  2. adjective Tending to worry; anxious.

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  • Even more worrisome, there's concern that the corruption is leaking into our civil institutions. —  The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers
  • Most worrisome is the momentum of the pandemic itself: 2008 registered nearly 3 million new cases of the disease, and only a small proportion of them are likely to receive treatment before perishing. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • More worrisome -- the rebels in that region who earn most of their cash from oil bunkering will be short on dough, inspiring more of the —  FP Passport
  • More worrisome is the investment decline by 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 —  A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
  • The fact that Michael Jackson had "bought the rights" to the Beatles catalog was worrisome, and - for a time - made me have some slight qualms about copyright (at least as it was then structured.) —  p2pnet news
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