worryingly

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adverb

In a worrying manner

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Meanings

adverbworryingly (comparative more worryingly, superlative most worryingly)

comparative more worryingly · superlative most worryingly

  1. In a worrying manner

    […] 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.

    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

Origin

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APA

worryingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/worryingly

MLA

“worryingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/worryingly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “worryingly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/worryingly.

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