shocking

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1. shocking - Noun

2. shocking - Adjective

3. shocking - Verb

5. shocking - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Shock

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

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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. Lauren Bacall

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth. Sandra Bernhard

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original. Al Gore

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell

Black miller and white blacksmith are shocking in front of the God. Finnish Proverb

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