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56 entries under upsetting topic. ×
| torturing(adjective, severe, shocking, disturbing) | |
| worrisome(adjective, hard, severe, offensive, distressing) | |
| cheerless(sad, unhappy, miserable, distressing) | |
| dismaying(adjective, hard, severe, offensive, shocking) | |
| touching(adjective, moving, emotional, distressing) | |
| troubling(hard, severe, offensive, distressing) | |
| frightening(adjective, hard, severe, offensive) | |
| heartbreaking(adjective, moving, sad, unpleasant, awful) | |
| moving(adjective, emotional, touching, distressing) | |
| nagging(adjective, tender, pain, gloomy, burning) | |
| calamitous(adjective, severe, sad, unpleasant, awful) | |
| discomforting(hard, severe, difficult, offensive, distressing) | |
| disconcerting(adjective, hard, severe, offensive, distressing) | |
| joyless(gloomy, distressing, tragic, plaintive) | |
| regrettable(miserable, wretched, distressing, anguished) | |
| alarming(adjective, hard, severe, offensive, shocking) | |
| creepy(hard, severe, offensive, distressing) | |
| hairy(difficult, shocking, disturbing, embarrassing) | |
| ominous(hard, severe, offensive, shocking, distressing) | |
| provoking(adjective, hard, severe, offensive, unpleasant) |
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