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'disturbingly' is a perfectly valid and correct word for use in written English.
It describes something that is unsettling, alarming, or disconcerting. Example sentence: Sarah found the new regulations disturbingly restrictive.
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disturbingly
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In a disturbing manner.
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Or worse – boos on the lavatory are disturbingly frequent.
Osborne was the most cheerful, though even when he is caked in slap he still looks disturbingly spectral.
The director defended his work from the onslaught of toxic reviews, calling the film "a disturbingly relevant historical document".
I appreciate the Guardian highlighting what has become a disturbingly widespread trend.
Still, the play disturbingly rings true to the non-disabled audience because it gives voice and panders to all their preconceptions and fears about what it's like to be in a family like ours.
These edifices of sound – though disturbingly dissonant for an audience in 1913 – are chosen with impeccable refinement, and they underpin the score's complete arc with a structural surety on an almost Beethovenian level.
A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.
"Wake the fuck up!" Most disturbingly, he also expresses his wish that the Hollywood elite would get "wiped out" and quotes a line from his film Rampage: "We have to fucking kill the rich".
And twins Lars and Sven Bender synchronised disturbingly in the Bundesliga in January – Lars scoring for Bayer Leverkusen in the fourth minute and Sven for Borussia Dortmund in the fifth.
Though the DoJ finds that, even in the worst departments, most shootings are justified, they also show that the shooting of unarmed people who pose no threat is disturbingly common.The body count in AlbuquerqueAlbuquerque, New Mexico, is a strong contender for the country's most violent force.
The world economy is looking unexpectedly brighter this year; but the transatlantic trade relationship has turned disturbingly dark.
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