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Recent Examples of disturbingly
The son of an alcoholic named George and a religious zealot named Augusta, Gein was raised alongside his brother Henry in a disturbingly strict household.
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Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
What this administration — and perhaps more disturbingly, this Federal Communications Commission — has done is to overturn the principle that the FCC’s job was to manage the airwaves, not to manage ideas.
—John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
McDermott skillfully deploys Valley Girl upspeak to ends both disturbingly perky and just straight disturbing.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Perhaps most disturbingly, this technology threatens to exacerbate existing inequalities.
—Raghu Para, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But before the title even flashes on screen, we are granted the disturbingly detailed view of a bullet ripping through the face of a young boy.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Apparently, disturbingly short.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
What this administration — and perhaps more disturbingly, this Federal Communications Commission — has done is to overturn the principle that the FCC’s job was to manage the airwaves, not to manage ideas.
—John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
McDermott skillfully deploys Valley Girl upspeak to ends both disturbingly perky and just straight disturbing.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Perhaps most disturbingly, this technology threatens to exacerbate existing inequalities.
—Raghu Para, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
But before the title even flashes on screen, we are granted the disturbingly detailed view of a bullet ripping through the face of a young boy.
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Apparently, disturbingly short.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Presciently, disturbingly, Chocobar’s murder occurred on October 12, a day commemorated in Argentina as the start of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disturbingly
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After a few days of snorkeling and beach-lolling, the view from our helicopter transfer to the Miavana resort on the island of Nosy Ankao just off Madagascar’s northeast, painted an alarmingly different picture.—
Chris Schalkx,
Vogue,
30 Sep. 2025
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Largely, that is down to their alarmingly blunt attack.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Drawing on Riefenstahl’s own words to reveal hypocrisy and self-mythologizing, the film utilizes archival footage and photographs to make history feel alive, immediate, and unsettlingly urgent.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
28 Sep. 2025
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Which, unsettlingly, is correct.—
Peter J. Frank,
Robb Report,
25 Sep. 2025
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And yet, distressingly, this early stage is too often where the lists of possible awards contenders start to get narrowed down.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
16 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Opioid addiction is distressingly common in nearly every contact and combat sport, but Kerr was isolated from the endemic abuse of painkillers in the industry.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The best-cooling cases often reach that mark by spinning up their fans to annoyingly noisy levels, but the MasterFrame 600 halts that trend by having the third-quietest (or fourth-noisiest) sound pressure level of our test lot.—
Thomas Soderstrom,
PC Magazine,
4 Oct. 2025
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There is, of course, a difference here, that being the fact that Netflix has annoyingly split season 2 of Wednesday into two parts, with the second airing on September 3, a month after the first.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
21 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The Panthers were awfully thin at receiver come the game’s end.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Sep. 2025
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And Weber has to keep Canvas Stadium full — or awfully close.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Immediate forgiveness – a message of letting go of the anger that comes with being so terribly wronged – has a familiar sound to those who have been following a frighteningly violent news cycle.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Cate was pretty clearly always this force of negativity in his life, pretty much more than anybody else — pretty traumatically awful — so there’s utility in that.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Disturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disturbingly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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