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Adverb: shockingly  shó-king-lee
  1. To a shocking degree
    "teachers were shockingly underpaid"
     
  2. Very badly
    "they behaved shockingly at the funeral"
     
  3. 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."
     
  4. To an appalling extent
    "the prisoners were shockingly thin";
    - appallingly, horrifically

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