What is "worryingly"

Usage examples of "worryingly".

And they still know worryingly little about the deep history of intelligence in this universe, about the origins of the Router network that laces so many dead civilizations into an embrace of death and decay, about the distant galaxy-scale bursts of information-processing that lie at measurable red-shift distances, even about the free posthumans who live among them in some sense, colocated in the same light-cone as these living fossil relics of old-fashioned humanity.

And they still know worryingly little about the deep history of intelligence in this universe, about the origins of the router network that laces so many dead civilizations into an embrace of death and decay, about the distant galaxy-scale bursts of information processing that lie at measurable red-shift distances, even about the free posthumans who live among them in some senses, collocated in the same light cone as these living fossil relics of old-fashioned humanity.

You never fully shook off the adrenalin rush no matter how many missions you undertook - the consensus was that the day you felt completely blase about a forthcoming engage-ment was either the day you were going to die or the day you should resign your commission forthwith - but the way she felt now was worryingly similar to how she'd felt before those early missions.

There were a lot of things that I couldn't remember ever having acquired, including a table light shaped like a pineapple, a large enamel sign advertising Dr Spongg's Footcare Remedies and – slightly more worryingly – a size-twelve pair of socks in the laundry and some boxer shorts.

When they sat down to eat, all obediently be-wigged like reluctant delegates to a Glam Rock convention, they discovered placecards between the cutlery, bearing what looked worryingly like lyrics.