Adjective : distress livestock; distress wheat. ,distress prices; distress borrowing. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to be distressed by excessive work. ,His suffering distressed him into committing suicide. From Dictionary.com.
And most distressingly she moaned but nought explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
That's good-and it's bad-and it's distressingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Can Anyone Spare A Job?] Reference
Often it does, but distressingly often it does the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Consuelo was determined, indignant, distressingly reproachful!. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
They early perceived the change, and became distressingly fond of him. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
"East" is a slow, solitary book, its plot a distressingly slack wire. From Wordnik.com. [A Sentimental Journey] Reference
And applying that moral template to Osama bin Laden is distressingly easy. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From America: Enlightening The Little Paci] Reference
And that is painfully, distressingly obvious to anyone who studied the area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2003] Reference
"I never saw any one so distressingly healthy," says Maud, still plaintively. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
The material itself, the raw material, is actually distressingly easy to obtain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2001] Reference
Thus as seen by the rest of the world, 9-11 had a distressingly paradoxical effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrogant Empire] Reference
I must acknowledge with shame that my ideas on the subject are distressingly vague. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Yet, if wisdom is not learnt, the damage to the child may be distressingly serious. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
The winters of Avignon, however, are sometimes rendered by it most distressingly cold. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
The throes come on, are distressingly violent, and continue until the womb is ruptured. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Ruth Rivers was the only one in the room who was not keenly alert or distressingly tense. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Wellington, at the battle of St Pierre, but his exultation proved distressingly premature. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
This gave much relief, the daytime heat being generally irksome and often distressingly hot. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
In this distressingly generic spy spoof, it's not Maxwell who's clueless, but the filmmakers. From Wordnik.com. [‘Get Smart’: Good Advice] Reference
"Professor Fortescue is eloquent, but he makes one feel distressingly vegetable," said Temperley. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
That's just been absent from our national conversation for me surprisingly and distressingly since 9/11. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2007] Reference
As a newly-designated prime minister takes charge in Iraq, he faces some distressingly familiar problems. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006] Reference
These people swell the death lists in Southern cities 'health offices to such distressingly large numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
One week after a distressingly lopsided loss at Houston, the Colts (1-1) looked like defending AFC champions. From Wordnik.com. [Manning Bowl: Peyton Routs Eli As Colts Top Giants 38-14] Reference
Two lords -- one very young, the other distressingly old -- have also solicited her hand in the "mazy dance.". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
After 9/11 Americans proved distressingly ready to give up constitutional protections for the sake of security. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall of America, Inc.] Reference
At last, when the Hermit's cramped position had grown distressingly painful, there came a welcome interruption. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
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