distressingly

In our experience hard cider is distressingly like drinking vinegar.

Consuelo was determined, indignant, distressingly reproachful!

The future is not such a distressingly unknown quantity as it was then.

So far the results have been distressingly uniform and hopelessly negative.

Excellent people, no doubt, but distressingly shortsighted in some matters.

He did not laugh; the absurdity was so distressingly unnatural.

And the days that now remained for that were distressingly few.

Julia was distressingly pretty; there was no disguising the fact.

What should he do, in these distressingly painful circumstances?

Nervous diseases are distressingly prevalent; still we hurry!