Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Shocking.
9 letter answer(s) to shocking
ATROCIOUS
exceptionally bad or displeasing;
provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
EGREGIOUS
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
5 letter answer(s) to shocking
AWFUL
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
exceptionally bad or displeasing;
extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
offensive or even (of persons) malicious;
LURID
ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence"
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames"
12 letter answer(s) to shocking
SCANDALISING
strike with disgust or revulsion;
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