flabbergasted

[ UK /flˈæbəɡˌɑːstɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæbɝˌɡæstɪd/ ]

ADJECTIVE

as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless
was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion
a circle of policemen stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident

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How To Use flabbergasted In A Sentence

Roger is flabbergasted and said that he has received support from police officers and community safety workers.
Saying that Joan was taken aback is to put it mildly. She was completely flabbergasted.
After a long wait, we're flabbergasted to be announced winners.
I was struck - flabbergasted, really - by the velocity of the heaves.
An integral part of the rich Assamese art and culture, which has flabbergasted renowned scholars, this highly skilled art is gasping for survival.
Yet when the deep-spacers who man this Pegasus of the void set down on Altair-4 and are confronted with a tinker-toyman called (close your ears) Roddy (sic) the Robot, they are flabbergasted. Will You Go See Avatar?
It would have been hard to judge who was the most flabbergasted by the situation in which we now found ourselves. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
But inspectors were flabbergasted when bayside residents attending a public meeting admitted they had been seeing the beetle for a couple years or more.
He was flabbergasted when we told him how cheap it was.
But he said: 'I am flabbergasted the manager has come in for stick. The Sun

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