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Shocking   /ʃˈɑkɪŋ/   Listen
Shocking

adjective
1.
Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism.  Synonym: lurid.
2.
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)
1.
Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.  Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback.
2.
Strike with disgust or revulsion.  Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize.
3.
Strike with horror or terror.
4.
Collide violently.
5.
Collect or gather into shocks.
6.
Subject to electrical shocks.
7.
Inflict a trauma upon.  Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize.



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"Shocking" Quotes from Famous Books



... reinforced, are committing shocking devastations in Culpepper and Orange Counties. His brutal orders, and his bragging proclamations, have wrought our men to such a pitch of exasperation that, when the day of battle comes, there will be, ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... put to death like gladiators for their diversion. While the soldiers were intent on slaughter, these miscreants were employed in plundering. The greatest part of the booty fell to their share. Rome presented a scene truly shocking, a medley of savage slaughter and monstrous vice; in one place war and desolation; in another bathing, riot, and debauchery. The whole city seemed to be inflamed with frantic rage, and at the same time intoxicated with bacchanalian pleasures. In the midst ...
— Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... I do forgive you. We will never misunderstand each other again—never. And now I want to talk to you. What distressed me so much just now was not anything that you said or thought about me, but the shocking way you treat yourself and what is best in you. Can't you understand it? You know how I believe in you and hope for you, and it was your affectation of indifference to things which are a religion to me—as they are to you—that cut me to ...
— Audrey Craven • May Sinclair
... "Shocking! it's the truth. This religious talk on such matters,—why don't they carry it a little further, and show the beauty, in its season, of a fellow's taking a glass too much, and sitting a little too late over his cards, and various ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... be good enough to look at Mr. Clifford's hand? I am sure his thumb should be attended to at once: it really is in a shocking state." ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell


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