Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a jolting manner; so as to jolt or shake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a jolting manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
jolting way; with abrupt, uneven shakes or knocks.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One way or the other, though, it should be at least a concern to all that the default behavior of Wave seems so inherently and joltingly privacy-denuding.
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Sometimes they totter and gesticulate joltingly at ground level, like dolls brought to life.
Creative Cirko De Mente evokes . . . well, it's hard to say Celia Wren 2010
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It is even more joltingly alive now than it was in the store -- gripping, grabbing, a head-on collision of thought-provoking emotions.
Mark C. Miller: Improve Your Life by Thinking of It as a Movie 2010
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Pale skin, joltingly inhuman shape ... stumps for legs ...
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The recent history of New York sports has been "joltingly normal," according to Long Island University history professor Joseph Dorinson.
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Easily the most unique film on the list, painter Steve McQueen has a joltingly poetic vision in exploring the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze prison and how Bobby Sands became a pawn as well as political icon as he willingly starved to death.
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If you want to support my kind of crass, commerical writing and enjoy some really joltingly good coffee (I still fantasize about the "Velvet Hammer" I had there once), come see me:
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2007
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And now, in an exhibition titled "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," viewers will find, along with many entirely decorous and joltingly beautiful paintings and sculptures, a section devoted to the pornographic imagination of several of Michelangelo's less high-minded contemporaries.
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And the chair began to advance slowly, joltingly down the beautiful broad riding washed over with blue encroaching hyacinths.
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She banked out into the oncoming lane and sped past three cars before lurching joltingly back into the left as the angry lights of a massive Shore Porters lorry blazed before them.
Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996
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