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diˈstressingly, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a distressing manner; distressfully, painfully.
1786Miss Clayton in Mrs. Delany's Corr. Ser. ii. III. 411 It was serious, but not distressingly so. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xx. 408 Our progress up was distressingly slow. 1870Proctor Other Worlds vii. 170 Prolonged and bitter frosts, contrasting so distressingly with the imagined geniality of his summer weather. |