worryingly
/ˈwʌrɪɪŋli
/adverb
In a way that causes anxiety about actual or potential problems: the wind howled and my tin roof rattled worryingly his words now sound worryingly prophetic [sentence adverb]: worryingly, the plan has been discarded...
- More worryingly, what cash they do have appears to be wasted on arms.
- Worryingly, Japanese investors would have to wait for close to fifty years to be completely sure of making inflation-beating profits.
- Pretty soon this all-purpose waste will have its appalling effect on insects stirring in the old boy's worryingly insecure glass tanks.
- Judas blossom
- Judas candle
- Judas color
- Judas-colored
- be (or be caught) in a cleft stick
- be (or come) along
- be (or come) late to the party
- be (or come) nowhere
- be (or find oneself) in a minority of one
- be (or get) across something
- be (or get) dialled in
- be (or get) lost in the shuffle
- be (or get) mixed up in
- be (or get) mixed up with
- be (or get) shut of
- be (or go) on the lash
- be (or go) on the piss
- be (or go) on the shicker
- be (or have a) down on
- be (or have something) written all over one (or one's face)
- be (or look) a picture
- be (or make) friends with
- be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
- be (or put oneself) in another person's shoes
- be (or stand) in awe of