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Recent Examples of unsettlingly
Grand pianos and half-full liquor bottles collect dust, while colorful children’s playrooms scattered with toys are unsettlingly idle.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsettlingly
Adverb
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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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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
Adverb
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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
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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
Adverb
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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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Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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People had called that earlier model irritatingly sycophantic, and the Raines would later suggest in their lawsuit that this quality had contributed to their son’s attachment to it.—
Vauhini Vara,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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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
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Meanwhile Bruce’s mom (Gaby Hoffmann), whom the kid is fiercely protective of, is left annoyingly unexplored.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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While damage reports coming out of Cuba and Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa are awful, some of the images and videos circulating on social media are just awfully fake.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Suárez could be awfully effective in San Francisco with the marine layer stifling deep fly balls on chilly nights by the bay.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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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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“Unsettlingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsettlingly. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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