perturbingly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for perturbingly
Adverb
  • Some even cross-reference leaked Salesforce data with information from previous breaches to build disturbingly complete profiles of their victims.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • 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.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Delinquencies, defaults, and repossessions have shot up in recent years and look alarmingly similar to trends that were apparent before the Great Recession.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After the Blue Jays had tied the series with two alarmingly comfortable wins in Seattle in Games 3 and 4, Suárez got the Mariners on the board with a solo home run to left field in the second inning.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • Which, unsettlingly, is correct.
    Peter J. Frank, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.
    Jesse Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The running game is a mess, Carson Wentz is often running for his life, and the defense proved distressingly vulnerable to big plays in last weekend’s 28-22 loss to Philadelphia.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adverb
  • But in the interim, since the dragon’s demise, something has gone terribly wrong.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • When Ashton reacted terribly, well, he got pushed off that cliff.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Perturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbingly. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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