distressingly

Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. forårsagende smerte eller bekymring.

Example Sentences

The situation is distressingly familiar.

Situationen er bekymrende velkendt.

She spoke distressingly about her struggles.

Hun talte bekymrende om sine udfordringer.

The results were distressingly disappointing.

Resultaterne var skuffende og bekymrende.

His behavior was distressingly inappropriate.

Hans opførsel var bekymrende upassende.

The news was distressingly sad.

Nyheden var bekymrende trist.

The lack of progress is distressingly evident.

Manglen på fremskridt er bekymrende tydelig.

The situation is distressingly complex.

Situationen er bekymrende kompleks.

Her health is distressingly fragile.

Hendes helbred er bekymrende skrøbeligt.

The noise level in the city is distressingly high.

Lydniveauet i byen er bekymrende højt.

The lack of communication is distressingly evident.

Manglen på kommunikation er bekymrende tydelig.

Real-world Examples

Distressingly popular. Hideously popular. And then?

Bekymrende populær. Frastødende populær. Og så?

Source: Yes, Minister Season 3

On reaching this place Mrs. Yeobright felt distressingly agitated, weary, and unwell.

Da hun nåede dette sted, følte fru Yeobright sig bekymrende urolig, træt og dårlig.

Source: Returning Home

He would have thought you distressingly plebian.

Han ville have fundet dig bekymrende almindelig.

Source: Blade (Part Two)

There is an ugliness of stupidity, for example, of unawareness (distressingly common among pretty women). An ugliness also of greed, of lasciviousness, of avarice.

Der er en grimhed ved dumhed, for eksempel ved mangel på bevidsthed (bekymrende almindelig blandt smukke kvinder). En grimhed også ved grådighed, ved lyst og ved griskhed.

Source: Advanced English (Upper Level)

The problem was that you needed something really hot-hotter even than the middle of the hottest stars to forge carbon and iron and the other elements without which we would be distressingly immaterial.

Problemet var, at du havde brug for noget virkelig varmt - endda varmere end midten af de varmeste stjerner - for at smelte carbon og jern og de andre elementer, uden hvilke vi ville være bekymrende immaterielle.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

When he remembered that Lady Vandeleur was the wife of one and the sister of the other of these gladiators, his heart was touched with sympathy for a woman so distressingly misplaced in life.

Da han huskede, at Lady Vandeleur var gift med den ene og søster til den anden af disse gladiatorer, blev hans hjerte rørt af medfølelse for en kvinde, der var så bekymrende misplaceret i livet.

Source: New Arabian Nights (Volume 1)

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