upset
Example Sentences
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"With our tail between our legs, we drove back to Dubai - but that was quite upsetting because mentally it took me quite a lot to commit to that road trip to Muscat," Patten said.
From BBC
Despite returning to defend the crown, Giles says there is competition from a Finnish couple coming to upset the odds.
From BBC
He recently was involved in a series of regulatory reversals for rare-disease drugs, upsetting patients and families as well as pharmaceutical companies, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
It was my fault and when death came and Storm could not face east he knew that I would be upset.
From Literature
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A Dubai billionaire’s critical post on X highlights how turmoil in the region stands to upset an increasingly profound economic relationship with the U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.