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What does shockingly mean?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

It is an adverb formed from the verb "to shock", usually not in the sense of what would happen if you stuck your tongue in the light socket and more in the figurative sense of what would happen if you opened the door to the Jehovah's Witnesses stark naked. In this figurative sense "to shock" means to offend against sensibilities. The adverb (usually used to modify adjectives rather than verbs) means in a manner calculated to offend against sensibilities. E.g. "She was wearing a shockingly short skirt."

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