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Shocked vs Shockingly - What's the difference?

shocked | shockingly |

As an adjective shocked

is surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback.

As a verb shocked

is (shock).

As an adverb shockingly is

in a shocking manner.

shocked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback.

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (shock)

    • shockingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a shocking manner.
    • He had thinned shockingly , losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
  • To a shocking degree.
    • Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
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    • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg. }}

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