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Shocking

adjective

Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism. Synonym: lurid.

Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation. Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful. "The wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt" , "The most shocking book of its time"

Shock

verb

(past & past part. shocked; pres. part. shocking)

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off. Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback.

Strike with disgust or revulsion. Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize.

Strike with horror or terror.

Collide violently.

Collect or gather into shocks.

Subject to electrical shocks.

Inflict a trauma upon. Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize.

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"Shocking" Quotes from Famous Books

... Josephus, it was any such crime, I am not satisfied. In the mean time, their making their father drunk, and their solicitous concealment of what they did from him, shows that they despaired of persuading him to an action which, at the best, could not but be very suspicious and shocking to so ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... Gervase, "it's all too shocking to be a laughing matter. Don't you agree with me, Mrs. Dixon? The sinful extravagance that went on at Pentre always frightened me. You remember that ball they gave last year? Mr. Gervase assured ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... so shocking to poor Jack, that he was ready to go mad. He ran to the window, and saw the two Giants coming along arm in arm. This window was right over the gates ...

— The Story of Jack and the Giants • Anonymous

... youngsters, eat buns in the street, and join the haymakers. They do not want the truth. Without knowing anything of Freud, they can add to their new and dreadful knowledge of this world all they want of the subconscious by reading the warlike speeches of the aged, one of the most obscene and shocking features of the War. The soldiers who are home on leave turn in revolt from that to hop-scotch. Yes, the truth about our own day will hardly bear looking at, whether it is reflected from common speech, or from the minds of artists like Mr. ...

— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson

... father. It isn't her way of working. Why couldn't she have known that when a title is to be had for the asking, the owner must be a shocking ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

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