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shocking
adjective as in outrageous; very surprising
Strongest matches
appalling, awful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, ghastly, heinous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, shameful, terrible, ugly
Strong matches
burning, crying, foul, glaring, nauseating, revolting, sickening, stupefying
Weak matches
abominable, atrocious, desperate, detestable, direful, fearful, formidable, frightful, hateful, hideous, loathsome, monstrous, odious, offensive, repulsive, scandalous, unspeakable
Example Sentences
Here are some of the most shocking and interesting revelations from "Cher: The Memoir Part One":
"It was quite a shocking thing to see and unexpected, but equally for various reasons quite welcome for them to go on TV like that," he said.
A Unifil spokesman in Geneva said UN peacekeepers were seeing increased levels of violence, with "huge, shocking" destruction across the blue line - the UN-recognised boundary that separates Israel and Lebanon.
"It was hard for weeks in the hospital, just watching, shocking," McGuigan said tearfully.
“To see that people are still auctioning our ancestral human remains in the 21st Century was shocking,” she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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