shockingly

Etymology

shocking + -ly

adv

  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.
    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. May 24, 2012, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club

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