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shocking

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shocking in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
    "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
    disgraceful  scandalous  shameful  shocking 
  2. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    "lurid details of the accident"
    lurid  shocking 
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