SHOCKING

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shocking I. adjectiv

1. emoţionant, zguduitor, înspăimântător.

2. scandalos, revoltător, şocant, ruşinos, respingător, dezgustător, necuviincios.

shocking II. adverb

(fam.) foarte, deosebit de, neînchipuit de, extraordinar de;

shocking bad foarte prost, îngrozitor/ revoltător de prost.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

We will not say how near, for fear of shocking the young ladies.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was amazingly shocking, to be sure; but the Tilneys were entirely to blame.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Shocking plan, living together.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

No? oh, shocking!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“Oh! shocking!” cried Miss Bingley.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

“Oh what a shocking boy!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“I am very glad of it,” said Catherine; “it would have been very shocking!”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Indeed I shall be very much obliged to you for your help, cried Lucy, for I find there is more to be done to it than I thought there was; and it would be a shocking thing to disappoint dear Annamaria after all.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He thought principally of Mrs. Churchill's illness, and wanted to know how she was treated; and as for the ball, it was shocking to have dear Emma disappointed; but they would all be safer at home.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter: and their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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