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distressfully

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dis·tress·ful  (d-strsfl)
adj.
Causing or experiencing distress.

dis·tressful·ly adv.
dis·tressful·ness n.
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Adv.1.distressfully - with distress; "`Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully"


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But he persisted in his demand, and at last, to get rid of him, she did put up her lips as directed for producing a clear note; laughing distressfully, however, and then blushing with vexation that she had laughed.
That is," she corrected, coloring distressfully, "I don't mean that I'm not sorry for the heathen, only just now I can't help being glad that you don't want the little India boys, because all the rest have wanted them.
Farebrother, seeing her small sister moving about the furniture-legs distressfully, "what is the matter?
 
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