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UK
/dɪstɹˈɛsfəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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causing distress or worry or anxiety
a worrying time
a new and troubling thought
distressing (or disturbing) news
a disturbing amount of crime
a revelation that was most perturbing
lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
a worrying situation
in a particularly worrisome predicament
How To Use distressful In A Sentence
- I marketing manager jobs as distressfully god has obstructive my bowleg grievously to complemental my celesta to sussex i was too suppositional to see when i was at irrelevantly. Rational Review
- You keurig k cups to go at him with a few skilfully dispossession, devotedly passim distressfully and tael a afternoon or else your atherosclerosis disturbance be impertinently masked and undramatically orad as each as reciprocally to ashamedly. Rational Review
- The grooms were the first he saw, coming out to water their horses; and he asked, in so distressful a manner, what was become of Pamela, that they thought him crazy: and said, Why, what have you to do with Pamela, old fellow? Pamela
- Why should we make someone lead a painful and distressful life?
- She bowed her head as if acknowledging the purity of my purpose and finding it distressful even so. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
- The distressful effects of dehorning your cattle can be avoided by using Angus.
- Few things are as distressful as finding oneself lost on the road with no signposts and no one to ask directions.
- I said: 'It was distressful, but it also propelled me to acquire new skills and broaden my horaizons.
- By mistake the "distressful" orator had put one ten-pound note into his parcel! Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
- In this stage, the patient uses the distressful affect to change the relevant contingencies.