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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickeningly
Adverb
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With its frozen setting, enigmatic characters, and haunting tone, Let The Right One In is, at its core, a twisted and terribly sad love story — as all the best vampire movies are.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025 -
Something went terribly wrong in the flavor-infusion process.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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After a three-game slide, getting back in the win column feels awfully good.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Nov. 2025
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The carousel has gotten awfully crowded.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2025
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The unwanted babies suffer horribly.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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Democrats appallingly gamed the system early on by inserting their activists (rather than fair-minded community members) on the map-drawing panels.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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The back end of the bullpen is stout, yet the lineup is dreadfully short.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Visits from polar bears were disturbingly common.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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The same studio that produced the Godzilla franchise, Toho, masterminds one of the most horrifying and disturbingly humorous psychedelic films to date.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Denver Public Schools has not returned to pre-pandemic levels of achievement and, alarmingly, has no clear plan to get there.—
Elaine Gantz Berman,
Denver Post,
25 Oct. 2025
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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
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“Sickeningly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickeningly. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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