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/pətˈɜːbɪŋ/
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[ US /pɝˈtɝbɪŋ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈtɝbɪŋ/ ]
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 perturbing In A Sentence
- Filmmaker Liz Canner took on the subject of the female orgasm and pharmaceutical companies in her film 2009 Orgasm, Inc. I interviewed Ms. Canner regarding her film as well as a couple of well-known psychoanalysts on the topic of women's sexuality, the medicalization of female sexual desire and the perturbing idea of the "right" kind of orgasm. Tamara McClintock Greenberg: Woman Behind
- It also suggests magnetic fields as a useful tool for perturbing and investigating cellular processes that involve large biomolecular assemblies.
- He had even thought that night that her feeling for him had passed, and he had taken delight in the thought, and caught visions of the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing love out of the way. Chapter XII
- We examined the possibility that mutual hostility and permissiveness expressed key structural characteristics of dyadic interactions that could best be tapped by perturbing the system.
- I think the most perturbing for me personally, are the ones who say to alien contactees that they are not facing up to their true experiences if that person speaks of a positive encounter.
- We evaluate the sensitivity of the system's perfect adaptation ability by perturbing the perfect adaptation conditions.
- The energy she displayed, to judge by the cheerful noises of it, was almost perturbing. CHAPTER VI
- As for the album itself, there was something a little perturbing about Batcow's assessment: "Ejaculate of the gods. Readers' Reviews
- Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus in the sixth edition of this work led Adams to his investigation and subsequent discovery of Neptune.
- It was therefore predicted that another more distant planet must be perturbing Uranus' orbit.