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startlingly

Adverb

Meaning

In a startling manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left. Douglas Adams

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore. Elizabeth Hand

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. M. H. Abrams

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Ken Auletta

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. M. H. Abrams

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Henry David Thoreau

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