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Recent Examples of disturbingly
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.
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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
After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The Kremlin, however, soon engaged in a series of disturbingly aggressive actions.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
But the build-up to the disturbingly absurd twist — which is becoming a Cregger signature — is so worth it.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 8 Aug. 2025
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
After a few times, Sheryl Crow is disturbingly proficient at the task.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
The Kremlin, however, soon engaged in a series of disturbingly aggressive actions.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
But the build-up to the disturbingly absurd twist — which is becoming a Cregger signature — is so worth it.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disturbingly
Adverb
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Animals are going extinct at an alarmingly fast rate, largely due to human activity.—
Darian Woods,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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The answer, alarmingly, is yes.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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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
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Here, the Canadian auteur began to rewrite, or define altogether, body horror, and Shivers finds him at his most disgustingly wacky.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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While the game retains the signature cel-shaded, colorful art style, the developers at Gearbox have promised a less annoyingly comedic tone.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 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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West Virginia in 2007 and Cincinnati in 2009 came awfully close.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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While skeptics will wisely point to the small sample size, Sox general manager Chris Getz and manager Will Venable must be getting awfully excited.—
Phil Rogers,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Even raid racers are not terribly excited about that, and apparently even like the previous World’s First team is even going to bother with it.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Set in his native Scotland and lovingly photographed, the film tantalizes even without a terribly original story.—
Stephen Farber,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That’s because no outside world news makes its way to contestants during the course of the game, which means that producers would not let Jake know any details regarding his child’s birth, unless something went horribly wrong.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Disturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disturbingly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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