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  • adverb In a troubling manner; causing one to be troubled

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troubling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, who despite his reputation as an inflation hawk has publicly voiced support for the Fed's bond-buying program, said on Thursday the jobless rate will remain "troublingly" high through 2012.

    Bernanke: Not Raising Debt Limit Would Be 'Catastrophic' Reuters 2011

  • Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, who despite his reputation as an inflation hawk has publicly voiced support for the Fed's bond-buying program, said on Thursday the jobless rate will remain "troublingly" high through 2012.

    Bernanke: Not Raising Debt Limit Would Be 'Catastrophic' Reuters 2011

  • Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, who despite his reputation as an inflation hawk has publicly voiced support for the Fed's bond-buying program, said on Thursday the jobless rate will remain "troublingly" high through 2012.

    Bernanke: Not Raising Debt Limit Would Be 'Catastrophic' Reuters 2011

  • Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota, who despite his reputation as an inflation hawk has publicly voiced support for the Fed's bond-buying program, said on Thursday the jobless rate will remain "troublingly" high through 2012.

    Bernanke: Not Raising Debt Limit Would Be 'Catastrophic' Reuters 2011

  • Mace, for those of you troublingly unacquainted with this tremendous spice, is related to nutmeg, and I learned about it long ago from the Two Fat Ladies, a (very) British show that ran on the Food Network during its early days but is now obscure, not even available on DVD as far as I can tell.

    pickles « paper fruit 2009

  • Mace, for those of you troublingly unacquainted with this tremendous spice, is related to nutmeg, and I learned about it long ago from the Two Fat Ladies, a (very) British show that ran on the Food Network during its early days but is now obscure, not even available on DVD as far as I can tell.

    2009 October « paper fruit 2009

  • The compliance rate for one important FATF recommendation is troublingly low, as the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime pointed out in a 2009 report for the StAR Initiative.

    Corbin Hiar: Stolen State Money: Trillions Lost Annually, Only Billions Have Been Recovered Corbin Hiar 2011

  • Unless it's Annie Bell's recipe, which opts for ground almonds instead, perhaps explaining its puzzlingly light and troublingly wholesome flavour.

    How to cook perfect Christmas cake 2011

  • The compliance rate for one important FATF recommendation is troublingly low, as the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime pointed out in a 2009 report for the StAR Initiative.

    Corbin Hiar: Stolen State Money: Trillions Lost Annually, Only Billions Have Been Recovered Corbin Hiar 2011

  • I felt utterly compelled to find out what happened to her, and if the compulsory happy ending was in evidence, at least the journey to it had been wittily acerbic and troublingly accurate in its representation of modern mores.

    As For Reading…? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

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