Definition of "distressfully" [distressfully]

• In a distressful way; showing distress (adverb)

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• "You! 'cried she, again distressfully, almost incredulously, looking at him, while her hands were uplifted with amazement:' I thought you above any suffering! superior to all calamity! ... almost to all feeling! .. '"
• "He even believes that he heard the voice of his fellow experimenter calling distressfully to him, though at the time he considered this to be an illusion."
• "There was a brief, heavy silence that weighed distressfully on Elis, while Hugh eyed the pair of them from under knitted brows, and fastened at last with frowning attention upon Melicent."