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Shocking vs Unseemly - What's the difference?

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Shocking is a related term of unseemly.


As adjectives the difference between shocking and unseemly

is that shocking is inspiring shock; startling while unseemly is inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.

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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    unseemly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unsemely (archaic)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Inconsistent with established standards of good form or taste.
    • He was drunk and made some very unseemly comments.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • An unseemly outbreak of temper.
  • * '>citation

    • Antonyms

    * seemly

    Related terms

    * unseemliness

    See also

    * inappropriate