disturbingly
advEtymology From disturbing + -ly.
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In a disturbing manner.
- But this morning was different. Disturbingly, because mysteriously, different. No wheels rumbled, no busses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard; no brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed; nor, as there should be at such an hour, the composite tramp of work-bound feet.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 9:
- “RIP Harambe” turned into a meme that took a disturbingly long time to go away.2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN: