agitatinglyadv.
/ˈadʒɪteɪtɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈædʒəteɪdɪŋli/ In such a manner as to cause agitation.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adverb] > in upsetting or perturbing manner
uncomfortably1548
disquietly?1608
disturbantlya1617
discomposingly1704
agitatingly1808
disconcertingly1833
disturbingly1880
disquietingly1901
upsettingly1926
1808 H. C. Backhouse Jrnl. in Jrnl. & Lett. (1858) ii. 27 The meeting with Rachel Gurney..was agitatingly interesting, but in the midst of it a peace and satisfaction which is indeed abundant recompense.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 160 That such a mind should have known miserable thoughts so well as to be enabled thus agitatingly to paint them.
1887 Pictorial World 28 Apr. 410 He had been deeply, not to say agitatingly, impressed.
1959 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, Calif.) 2 Aug. b5/1 We went agitatingly flouncing about in search of a dictionary.
2004 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 2 July (Arts & Lett. section) 19 The film consistently, and agitatingly, switches gears before you can settle in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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