shocking

IPA: ʃˈɑkɪŋ

noun

  • The application of an electric shock.

adjective

  • Inspiring shock; startling.
  • Unusually obscene or lewd.
  • (colloquial) Extremely bad.
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Examples of "shocking" in Sentences

  • The story of the army was shocking.
  • The result was surprising and shocking.
  • The performance was deplorable, shocking.
  • The result was shocking and disappointing.
  • It was shocking and shattered for everyone.
  • Berlin film festival is condemning what it calls the shocking …
  • It proposed a new national strategy to tackle what it called a "shocking state of affairs".
  • The Afghan Ministry of Defense also condemned the actions in the video, which it described as "shocking."
  • It's a break from what he describes as the shocking news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian and Muslim, stands accused of plotting to blow up an airliner.
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross reported finding what it called shocking scenes on Wednesday, including four emaciated children next to the bodies of their dead mothers.
  • The Department of Justice on Thursday received a tongue-lashing from Parliament's watchdog public accounts committee for what it called the shocking state of the department's financial accounts.
  • My first effort will be to reconcile you to what you call a shocking thing in our laws, and to show you how very shocking it would be (on the other hand), if slaves were allowed to give testimony against the whites.
  • Duchess of Cambridge to visit famine-hit areas of East Africa The Duchess of Cambridge has disclosed plans to visit famine-hit areas of East Africa to draw attention to what she described as the "shocking" plight of starving children.
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