flabbergastedly

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Etymology[edit]

flabbergasted +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

flabbergastedly (comparative more flabbergastedly, superlative most flabbergastedly)

  1. in a flabbergasted manner.
    • 1903, Charles Battell Loomis, Cheerful Americans, page 18:
      She returned my stare and said, "Irene likes him, and that is more to the point." I shook my head flabbergastedly.
    • 2013, Clementine Beauvais, Sesame Seade Mysteries 2: Gargoyales Gone AWOL, Hachette Children's, →ISBN:
      I didn't care that Mum was flabbergastedly uttering a very great number of Sophie Margaret Catriona Seades.
    • 2014, Craig Harline, Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 232:
      to which I could only flabbergastedly say that whoever was doing the throwing must've had a heck of an arm, because the lake was about five miles away, which made them laugh.

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