Definition of "worryingly" []

• In a worrying manner (adverb)

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• "We were a few kilometers from Sette Cama, which rather worryingly translates as "seven graves" in reference to the lost graves of seven Portuguese sailors believed to have died there."
• "On the one hand, it's entirely alright to believe in such a thing, but on the other, it is a religion born of one man's mind a few dozen years ago, quite evangelical in nature, and displays various tendencies that some might label worryingly-anit-social and some might say exploitative."
• "The Inquisition in Spain was able to succeed not just because of the application of violence, which Professor Duffy identifies as a worryingly effective corrective, but also because they had two things England lacked - no official Protestantism and a sustained period of time."