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adj. Highly disturbing emotionally.

adj. Highly offensive; indecent or distasteful.

adj. Very vivid or intense in tone: shocking pink.

adj. Inspiring shock; startling

adj. Unusually obscene or lewd

adj. Extremely bad

v. Present participle of shock.

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

Causing a shock of indignation, disgust, distress, or horror; extremely offensive, painful, or repugnant.

Synonyms Wicked, Scandalous, etc. (see atrocious), frightful, dreadful, terrible, revolting, abominable, execrable, appalling.

adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

"It proposed a new national strategy to tackle what it called a "shocking state of affairs"."

sensational    immoral   

pleasant   

horrible    abominable    disgusting   

horrible    horrific    ghastly    ghast    ghastful   

shock   

Hocking    blocking    clocking    cocking    docking    flocking    hocking    knocking    locking    mocking