unnervinglyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈnəːvɪŋli/, U.S. /ˌənˈnərvɪŋli/ In an unnerving manner; disconcertingly.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > [adverb] > unnervingly
unnervingly1893
1893 Era Almanack 86 The fair one was unnervingly beautiful and freezingly cold.
1933 Manch. Guardian 24 Jan. 7/1 It is so unnervingly silent.
1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xxxiii. 313 There was something unfocussed, something a little unnervingly fragmentary, in his present apprehension of Lindsay.
1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die i. 10 Parkinson had been unnervingly friendly.
2011 Daily Tel. 28 Apr. (Business section) b4/1 Things are beginning to look unnervingly similar to what happened in Japan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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