UNSETTLINGLY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

unsettlingly

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as in disturbingly

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Recent Examples of unsettlingly After a brief stay in a very creepy hospital (unsettlingly empty) Hal and John reunite. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 And the book bearing his name is no ancient tome but a slim, spare novel set in an unsettlingly familiar landscape. — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026 The Marriage Bed by Tommy Hays After a heated argument with his wife Betsy, Asheville, North Carolina, poetry professor Asa Flowers spends his first night apart from her in decades, only to wake to a world quietly and unsettlingly changed. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 19 June 2026 Griffin’s blue eyes are unsettlingly bright. — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Patient arthouse viewers, however, will find much to chew on here as a subtly cerebral film about small bodies unsettlingly, hilariously navigating a big, violent world. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 25 May 2026 On the season premiere of It Happened in Hollywood, director Lynne Littman and star Jane Alexander, nominated for an Oscar for her performance, revisit the film’s enduring impact, offering a deeply personal look at a project that still feels unsettlingly urgent. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026 Disappearances are still unsettlingly high. — Angélica Durán-Martínez, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026 Otherwise, the streets are unsettlingly quiet. — Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026

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With Bryce Young as their starting quarterback the past three seasons, the Panthers have been disturbingly consistent in their Week 1 deficiencies, losing 26-10, 47-10 and 24-10.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026
As Cuba’s hot summer nears its end with no sign of regime change on the communist-run island, Cubans continue to suffer miserable living conditions as the country’s humanitarian crisis gets disturbingly worse.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of disturbingly

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United were alarmingly impotent in a way which, even now, is strange to see and damaging for a head coach’s reputation.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
In the span of less than a week this July, surgeons at a Southern California hospital raced to save the lives of two women suffering from alarmingly similar brain hemorrhages.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of alarmingly

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The movie’s strongest sequences provide the all-too-rare sensation of truly not being able to believe your eyes, as the film’s most fantastical elements feel distressingly real.

— Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026

Definition of distressingly

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High-level players will basically always be in a drift—even during straightaways—to seize every opportunity to boost, just like people who were disgustingly good at Mario Kart DS back in the day.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 29 Apr. 2026
The next morning, Park awakes hung over before disgustingly scoffing down a handful of salmon off a caterer's serving tray.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026

Definition of disgustingly

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Such politicians viewed literature as subversive, irritatingly highbrow, and—like socialism—suspiciously European.

— Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Aaron, with divine intervention, turns the dust of the land into gnats that irritatingly cover humans and animals throughout Egypt.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026

Definition of irritatingly

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Pivots into a black-and-white Brazilian telenovela, which Camilo tunes into nightly while on baby duty, feed into the film’s nesting-doll narrative on paper, but in practice make for annoyingly gratuitous flourishes.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Though The Visitors has been praised widely, it’s been hosanna’d in too annoyingly presentist terms.

— Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of annoyingly

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So Tesla was claiming to get awfully close to that, match its top speed of about 256 mph (412 km/h), and deliver 621 miles (1,000 km) of range for a tenth of the price.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026
Or else, things will start looking awfully familiar around here again on defense.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026

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