distressed
adjective
showing or suffering from distress; worried or upset.
distressedly
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a word derived from
distressed.
Example Sentences
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But where, he once wrote distressedly, "was that record of this intellectual and moral power, which during more than two centuries, had been going out from the walls of Harvard?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, four days after Georgie was scheduled to leave, the Russians at the Badger's Den distressedly called the police and asked them please to find George.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh, don't speak of him harshly!" cried Bernardine, distressedly.
From Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife by Laura Jean Libbey
He went out, leaving Johnson to mutter distressedly.
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
Her eyes avoided his face and wandered distressedly round the room.
From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann
