perturbingly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perturbingly
Adverb
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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
  • Largely, that is down to their alarmingly blunt attack.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 29 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adverb
  • While this does not sound terribly steep, this was in Earth's gravity — in the lower gravity of Mars, this would be equivalent to a 30 degree slope.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … SINKING FEELING – Woman's attempt to protest ICE arrest in Massachusetts goes terribly wrong.
    , FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
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“Perturbingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perturbingly. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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