distressful
Example Sentences
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Needless to say this was a very distressful and infuriating experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2017
“Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future,” Justice Blackmun wrote in Roe v.
From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2017
“I find it distressful the discussion of parks focuses only on their economic value.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2013
I found it very distressful - our children, my wife etc, all put in complaints directly to Facebook.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2010
“A piteous and distressful thing, then, that you will not live to return home and tell what you have seen.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
