distressingly
Related worddistressful
Her face grew red and she looked distressfully at her brother.
She walked about the room, not joyfully but distressfully.
My father was too distressfully embarrassed to speak.
The dogs howled distressfully all night.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Saddening, shocking and upsetting
affecting
agonizingly
arrogance
baleful
be cold comfortidiom
disrespect
distressful
distressing
distressingly
dolorous
hurtful
hurtfully
impiously
impiousness
lacerating
teary
touching
touchingly
tragically
traumatic