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- adverb In a manner that
perturbs .
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Examples
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There is, for instance, something perturbingly gelid about the satisfaction with which he describes the jacket he wore to visit his wife on her deathbed ( "punk Harris tweed with a Rhodesian flag on the back and an Umbro label on the front", since you ask).
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow Rachel Cooke 2010
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Paul fixed Aaron with a perturbingly intense stare.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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They are perturbingly durable, marbelized in the strain.
On the Election Hardwick, Elizabeth 1972
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"You have not changed, at least," Tiburce answered; and for the first time he smiled, a little perturbingly by reason of the change in him.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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"You have not changed, at least," Tiburce answered, and for the first time he smiled, a little perturbingly by reason of the change in him.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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They were frivolous people for the most part, though some among them were serious, and often the most frivolous were those from whom she would have expected gravity, and the serious those whom, on a first meeting, she had thought perturbingly frivolous.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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Among the things that Helen made her see, freshly and perturbingly, was the sheaf of friends in England of whom she had thought with such security when Miss Robinson had spoken of the London _salon_.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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New York film festivals, the cavernous, dilapidated movie theater where most of Brillante Mendoza's perturbingly kicky, neo-realist melodramedy takes place has drawn quick parallels to the likewise run-down theater of Tsai Ming-liang's
GreenCine Daily 2009
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New York film festivals, the cavernous, dilapidated movie theater where most of Brillante Mendoza's perturbingly kicky, neo-realist melodramedy takes place has drawn quick parallels to the likewise run-down theater of Tsai Ming-liang's
GreenCine Daily 2009
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I find the article's suggestion that Asians and Arabs consider the study of the arts or literature evidence of "perturbingly unique thought that breeds moral suspicion" profoundly worrying.
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