distressing

The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.

In one of the most distressing events of the year, nerd entitlement hit 100.

The health care workers, too, face “distressing” conditions.

The current lack of available Simpsons clips online is distressing.

Many Orange is the New Black fans found this scene to be particularly distressing.

“This is a distressing predicament for these young people,” thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning.

The fate of the royal family after this defeat was extremely singular and distressing.

Indeed, the arrival of the American volunteers under these distressing circumstances produced a fresh commotion in Yloilo.

It was more than distressing, it was afflicting—the letters tore an established reputation into a thousand pieces.

It's seeing people and objects in their weird entirety, in their true and complete shapes, that is so distressing.