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Shocking vs Scornful - What's the difference?

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Shocking is a related term of scornful.


As adjectives the difference between shocking and scornful

is that shocking is inspiring shock; startling while scornful is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.

As a verb shocking

is .

As a noun shocking

is the application of an electric shock.

shocking

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Inspiring shock; startling
  • Unusually obscene or lewd
  • (colloquial) Extremely bad

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    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The application of an electric shock.
  • * 2005 , Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet
    • We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings , beatings, brandings,

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    scornful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful . "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."