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flabbergastingly
adverb
uk /ˈflæb.ə.ɡɑː.stɪŋ.li/ us /ˈflæb.ɚ.ɡæs.tɪŋ.li/
in a shocking way that is usually unexpected:
She has produced one of the most flabbergastingly beautiful pieces of work that I have ever seen.
Quite flabbergastingly, at the same time as redundancies were announced, the news came out that the CEO had given himself a huge pay rise.
Her offer to cover the costs of the project was flabbergastingly generous.
I still can't believe how flabbergastingly rude he was.
And then, flabbergastingly, she started to list all the things that I had done wrong.
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against all expectationsphrase
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