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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