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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a distressing message" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a message that causes anxiety, sadness, or discomfort.
Example: "Receiving a distressing message about a loved one's health can be overwhelming."
Alternatives: "an upsetting message" or "a troubling message."
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In the excerpt for The Grim Grotto, he writes: " the horrors [the Baudelaire children] encounter are too numerous to list, and you wouldn't even want me to describe the worst of it, which includes mushrooms, a desperate search for something lost, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend and tap-dancing".
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"It's a very distressing message..
Brown and colleagues have shown that distressing messages that emphasize the severity of a health threat cause defensive reactions.
In the past year, hundreds of thousands of people across the world have switched on their computers to find distressing messages alerting them that they no longer have access to their PCs or any of the files on them.
It was three hours before game time on Friday when Joe Girardi read a distressing e-mail message from Major League Baseball.
And a distressing solipsism..
A distressing development.
A distressing day.
And a distressing solipsism...
That is a distressing argument.
A distressing number have died".
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