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Adverb: shockingly  shó-king-lee
  1. So as to shock the feelings
    "One day, she lost her temper, completely, suddenly and, even to herself, shockingly"; "Suddenly, shockingly, the clergyman's son was a desperado"
     
  2. To a shocking degree
    "teachers were shockingly underpaid"
     
  3. Very badly
    "they behaved shockingly at the funeral"
     
  4. To an appalling extent
    "the prisoners were shockingly thin";
    - appallingly, horrifically