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Definition of Disquietingly
1. Adverb. In a disquieting manner. "The disquietingly close sounds of gunfire"
Definition of Disquietingly
1. Adverb. In a disquieting manner ¹
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Definition of Disquietingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disquietingly
Literary usage of Disquietingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Dun Cormorants pass at a lower level at a speed disquietingly suggestive of
belated commuters; but the California Brown ..."
2. A Montessori Mother by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912)
"It occurred to me, disquietingly, that possibly, instead of really training my
children, I might be dragging them headlong on a Cook's tour through life. ..."
3. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Eugene Campbell Barker (1913)
"... how disquietingly the actual State of Western Texas sustains this reasoning,
and it is my duty to add that 'Percy Doyle, British chargé d'affaires at ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... more often still, it may be, weakening or deluding superior forces by skilful
movements. Chosroes, who felt the emperor disquietingly near at ..."
5. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the by Erich Ludendorff (1919)
"After a temporary rise the warlike spirit of Germany had fallen since July to a
disquietingly low level. The spirit which was to disarm the German people in ..."
6. The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as by Walter Alison Phillips (1920)
"Without this the body politic will simply dissolve into its elements —a truth
made disquietingly clear by the developments of the Russian revolution. ..."
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