Shockingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Shockingly is an adverb meaning In a shocking manner.
Meaning
In a shocking manner.
More Meanings
- To a shocking degree.
Example Sentences
Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include astonishingly, stunningly, surprisingly, uncannily, frighteningly, alarmingly.
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