shocking

  • (s) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
    • lurid details of the accident
    lurid,
  • (s) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
    • scandalous behavior
    • "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray
    • the most shocking book of its time
    disgraceful, scandalous, shameful,

Synonyms

lurid disgraceful scandalous shameful

Words of close approximity

shockingly