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disquietingly, adv.|dɪsˈkwaɪətɪŋlɪ|
[f. disquieting ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a disquieting manner; also used to introduce a statement of a fact considered disquieting.
1901‘L. Malet’ Sir R. Calmady iv. vii. 346 The creaking of a board, the rustle of a curtain,..were..disquietingly replete with possible meaning. 1922Public Opinion 23 June 580/1 A tendency to change strangely and disquietingly. 1928Britain's Industr. Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) iv. xxvii. 398 In some industrial centres there is a disquietingly high percentage of registered unskilled workers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. 1970Nature 28 Nov. 818/1 Disquietingly, no major known human teratogen..has been identified by prospective epidemiological analyses. |