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upsetting

adjective

  1. cause emotional or physical anguish
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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.

    “He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.”

    “The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.”

  2. Conceited; presumptuous.

noun

  1. An overturning or disarrangement.

    “the upsettings of all their careful plans”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of upset