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disturbing
adjective as in disquieting
Strongest matches
alarming, annoying, bothersome, creepy, depressing, disconcerting, discouraging, distressing, embarrassing, frightening, irritating, ominous, painful, perplexing, sinister, startling, threatening, troublesome, troubling, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, worrisome, worrying
Strong matches
aggravating, agitating, discommoding, discomposing, dismaying, foreboding, harassing, impeding, perturbing, provoking, trying
Weak matches
burdensome, consequential, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, gloomy, hard, inconvenient, irksome, laborious, onerous, pessimistic, prophetic, severe, tiresome, toilsome, uncertain, wearisome
Example Sentences
The killers participate in the re-enactments with apparent glee, leaving viewers with a disturbing picture of how readily brutality can be rationalized and repressed.
Among the most disturbing scenes in the film is one in which Matthews galvanizes a rally of white nationalists with a speech that ends with the room chanting, “Defeat never, victory forever.”
In her desperation, she visited a “clinic” offering an unconventional “treatment” - an outlandish and disturbing scam preying on women desperate to become mothers that involves the trafficking of babies.
In one of her interviews, she spoke about a particularly disturbing memory she had of the violence that broke out between Hindus and Muslims.
“Hot air balloons, drones for aerial photography, and appropriate pathways for observation from a distance could allow tourists to closely yet remotely view sinkholes, while disturbing as few organisms as possible.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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