[ adv ] unpleasantly <adv.all> his ignorance was painfully obvious
When it comes to the speaker's gavel, I have become distressingly expert at it, having now gone down to defeat for the sixth straight time on a party line vote.
'We offer a real culture of growing old.' It is a culture with which Germany as a whole is becoming distressingly familiar.
The same is true of the works created by the three representatives from the world of post-modern dance, Laura Dean, Lar Lubovich and Paul Taylor, all of whose ideas seemed distressingly thin.