distressingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English distressing Middle English -ly English -ly English distressingly From distressing + -ly.

1. In a distressing manner; so as to cause distress.

   “It shook the girl distressingly, but she made no sign; only she took one swift look at Andrew, and noted that he had suddenly changed from a boy into a man, with a brave, grave face.”

   “All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.”