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Shockingly vs Brutally - What's the difference?

shockingly | brutally |

As adverbs the difference between shockingly and brutally

is that shockingly is in a shocking manner while brutally is in a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.

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.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , 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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    brutally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a brutal manner; viciously, barbarically.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.