What does Shockingly mean?

Definitions for Shockingly
shock·ing·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shockinglyadverb

    extremely

    "teachers were shockingly underpaid"

  2. shockinglyadverb

    so as to shock the feelings

Wiktionary

  1. shockinglyadverb

    In a shocking manner.

    He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.

  2. shockinglyadverb

    To a shocking degree.

    Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.

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  1. shockingly

    Shockingly is an adverb that describes something that is surprisingly or startlingly, often in a distressing or upsetting way. It pertains to something that has an intense, extreme, or alarming impact, causing great surprise, fear, or even disgust.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shockingly in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shockingly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Shockingly in a Sentence

  1. Susan Campbell:

    It mostly starts with social media influencers taking up a cause. If Im angry at, say, American Airlines, I, a savvy user of social media with shockingly few followers/friends on Twitter/Instagram/TikTok/Facebook will find someone more established who can spread the word, and then I will sit back and hope it takes off.

  2. Sharon McMahon:

    It was just shockingly wrong, like not even a little bit right.

  3. Sara Cody:

    The pace at which this epidemic is developing is shockingly fast, that means the response has to be so fast -- and it's not.

  4. Tom Millar:

    In countries like Ethiopia( prevalence) is mind-numbingly, shockingly high – in some communities over 50 percent of the population have trachoma.

  5. James Scott:

    The disturbingly techno-illiterate and cyber-hygienically lackadaisical and shockingly arrogant responses by the National Association of Secretaries of States when we at ICIT repeatedly showed them what their vulnerabilities were and exactly how elections could be compromised is a betrayal of trust to offer safe and legitimate elections. The technical vulnerabilities littering our election systems is only part of the problem.

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