distressfully
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
My little boy," I say, distressfully, "I must work every day.
From My Little Boy by Ewald, Carl
Oh," Mrs. Cameron exclaimed, distressfully, "I don't know!
From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
He described his adversary so well that the police at once identified and arrested him; but he appeared troubled with a distressfully bad memory in court to-day.
From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold
