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Discover LudwigThe phrase "rather shocked" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that someone was moderately or mildly shocked by something. For example, "I was rather shocked when I saw the price on the menu."
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I was rather shocked.
I think they are rather shocked.
This rather shocked me, and I wandered off in a state of some perturbation.
When I read that one I was rather shocked to find I didn't much like my earlier self.
They were probably rather shocked by the list of nanoparticle-containing products they were presented with afterwards.
We stayed in there until the fans arrived – the girls were rather shocked to see us emerge from the cubicles.
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For the food-obsessed, what we eat often takes on a wholly inappropriate emotional dimension, no matter how mundane the foodstuff in question – as a friend's rather shell-shocked husband found out when he munched his way through an admittedly-hard-to-get-hold-of bag of crisps, only for her to shout at him and then burst into tears when she found the empty packet.
Paula Deen is shocked — shocked!
I am shocked – shocked!
Now everyone is shocked — shocked!
People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts.
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