Shockingly
['ʃɑkɪŋli]
Definition
(adv.) so as to shock the feelings.
(adv.) extremely; 'teachers were shockingly underpaid'.
Editor: Stephen--From WordNet
Examples
- I was forced to wrap myself up in my greatcoat and woollen trousers; everything else about the bed was shockingly dirty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I will not call it love or affection, else why does he with his twenty thousand a year suffer her to be so shockingly distressed? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A shockingly ugly old creature, miss; almost as black as a crock. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was of a livid chalky white, and with something set and rigid about it which was shockingly unnatural. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The next time that old Sedley asked her to play, she said it was shockingly out of tune, that she had a headache, that she couldn't play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How can that young man stand by and see two women so shockingly insulted, and not come forward to offer his protection? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Stephen