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Definition of Shocking

1. Adjective. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism. "Lurid details of the accident"

2. Adjective. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation. "The most shocking book of its time"

Definition of Shocking

1. a. Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.

Definition of Shocking

1. Adjective. Inspiring shock; startling ¹

2. Adjective. Unusually obscene or lewd ¹

3. Adjective. (colloquial) Extremely bad ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of shock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shocking

1. shock [v] - See also: shock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shocking

shock sites shock therapies shock therapy shock treatment shock troop shock troops shock tube shock wave shock wave lithotripsy shock waves

shockability shockable shocked shocker shockers shocking (current term) shocking dose shocking pink shockingly shockingness

shocklike shockproof shockproofed shockproofing shockproofs shocks shockt shockumentaries shockumentary shockvertising

Literary usage of Shocking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of by Rees Howell Gronow, Joseph Grego (1892)
"THE ORIGIN OF "shocking BAD HAT." — At Newmarket, when the Duke of York, ... Then the little man wears a shocking bad hat — a shocking bad hat," rejoined ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The bruises about the head and under part of this infant, and of his sister, were numerous and shocking, and the wool was in some places stripped away from ..."

3. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"In the beginning, he was only able—as he said—" to buy one slave;" and, scandalous and shocking as is the fact, he boasted that he bought her simply " as a ..."

4. The Lancet Me (1842)
"... are " wild," "visionary," "shocking," "ludicrous,"and " dreadful," unless these charges are accompanied by something like an attempt at demonstration. ..."

5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1903)
"DISORDER IN ROME—BONIFACE VI., POPE—STEPHEN VI., POPE—THE CORPSE SYNOD—JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED UPON FORMOSUS—FALL OF THE LATERAN BASILICA—CAUSES OF THE shocking ..."

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