distress
noun
great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
distressfully
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a word derived from
distress.
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a word derived from
distressful.
Example Sentences
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Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked at her as she distressfully pondered her future.
From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth
Small wonder was it that she should sit down on one of her own valises and begin to cry distressfully.
From The High Heart by King, Basil
Do you remember, my dear boy," Ulrich went on, with his eyes fixed distressfully on vacancy, "the day of your return, when we sat and drank together at the Prussian Crown?
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
