Definition of Shocking

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Definition of Shocking
	Shocking of Shock Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. Related Definitions: As, Blow, By, Causing, Disgust, Disgusting, Especially, Extremely, Horror, Of, Offensive, Or, Recoil, Shake, Shock, To, Tremble, With

Shocking Quotations

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

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

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
Michael Phelps

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
Rosie O'Donnell

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.
Tom Felton

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.
Tracey Ullman

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.
Mark Hoppus

Shocking Translations

shocking in French is traumatisant
shocking in Spanish is chocante, malsonante
shocking in Swedish is chockerande

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