upset
verb (used with object)
to overturn.
upsettingly
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a word derived from
upset.
Example Sentences
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Like many Australians - even the prime minister, Anthony Albanese - she says the circumstances feel upsettingly similar to the Wieambilla shooting in Queensland three years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
Even more upsettingly, she encourages his poor mother to dance about and do finger-painting — as if Constance Orser weren’t a woman whose principal delight was completing the Sunday crossword in The New York Times.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Given that “Kidnapped” returns again and again to the theme of loyalty, in all its forms, and does so against a backdrop of violence and civic turmoil, it now seems unexpectedly, even upsettingly relevant.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2021
The performance was modernist, angry, upsettingly of the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2020
Altogether she was as upsettingly pretty a young person as could be seen in a year's journey, and the glances of the beholders brightened vividly at her approach.
From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Edmund Frederick
