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disquietingly
adverb
formaluk /dɪˈskwaɪ.ə.tɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈskwaɪ.ə.t̬ɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel worried: 令人担心地| 令人焦虑地
It is a subject that is still disquietingly relevant today.
She takes a disquietingly cautious approach.
Many teachers report disquietingly declining levels of motivation among their students.
The men in the back of the truck looked disquietingly like insurgents.
The research shows that, disquietingly, the pay gap is even wider in services than in manufacturing.
Thousands of police, many of them equipped, disquietingly, with video cameras, guarded the route.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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alarmingly
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catch up with someone
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disturb
dread
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get/go beyond a jokeidiom
give someone the jimjamsidiom
give someone the jittersidiom
gnaw
oppressive
rattle
roost
stressfully
suspenseful
suspensefully
suspensive
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