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Webster 1913 Edition


Worryingly

Wor′ry-ing-ly

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adv.
In a worrying manner.

Definition 2024


worryingly

worryingly

English

Adverb

worryingly (comparative more worryingly, superlative most worryingly)

  1. In a worrying manner
    • 2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:
      [] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.