distressingly

The situation is distressingly familiar.

She spoke distressingly about her struggles.

The results were distressingly disappointing.

His behavior was distressingly inappropriate.

The news was distressingly sad.

The lack of progress is distressingly evident.

The situation is distressingly complex.

Her health is distressingly fragile.

The noise level in the city is distressingly high.

The lack of communication is distressingly evident.

Distressingly popular. Hideously popular. And then?

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

He would have thought you distressingly plebian.

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

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.

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.