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disturbingly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English disturbing Middle English -ly English -ly English disturbingly From disturbing + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a disturbing manner.
   • But this morning was different. Disturbingly, because mysteriously, different. No wheels rumbled, no busses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard; no brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed; nor, as there should be at such an hour, the composite tramp of work-bound feet. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 9:
   • “RIP Harambe” turned into a meme that took a disturbingly long time to go away. 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:

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Translations (5)

pl niepokojąco (Translations) · fr de façon troublante (Translations) · fi järkyttävästi (Translations) · fr étrangement (Translations) · fi häiritsevästi (Translations)