distressfully
Example Sentences
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Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at her as she distressfully pondered her future.
From Nobody's Child by Elizabeth Dejeans
"Oh!" said the little Sister—"oh!" and distressfully she covered her head with her hands, as if trying to shield herself from the terrible light of day.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
"I must go home," she murmured to herself distressfully, as she slipped unobserved through the crowded rooms.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
