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shockingly

adverb B2
  1. In a shocking manner. · He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
  2. To a shocking degree. · Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
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They are both quick and energetic, but conventional—shockingly so.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 24 · B2

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