Example Sentences

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But the varied customs of ancestral societies should give us pause, because they appear to have evolved in response to some discomfortingly hard-nosed trade-offs.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2020

In that discomfortingly close range between the unlikeliest of friends, and between rapture and repulsion, the film finds its compelling edge.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2017

And intensive “topsoil” therapies like Applied Behavior Analysis can, in some cases, teach autistic children to control their symptoms, though the reward-driven philosophy of ABA reminds some discomfortingly of dog training.

From Newsweek

It was right and fitting that the chief executive of the Reclamation Service should have a part in the rejoicings, and Brouillard found himself discomfortingly emphasized as chairman of the civic reception committee.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis

She turned those too sharp eyes on me discomfortingly.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward