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shockable, a.|ˈʃɒkəb(ə)l|
[f. shock v.2 + -able.]
Easily shocked. Also absol. in pl. sense (with the). Hence ˈshockableness = shockability.
1893Collingwood Ruskin I. 27 His parents were not of the shockable sort. 1929M. Arlen Babes in Wood 254 How..nice I think you are—to be so shockable. How different from your books! 1939H. G. Wells Holy Terror iii. i. 207 Shockableness is still high. Reverence is something that survives belief. 1965Listener 1 July 12/1 Experimental plays, full of loose living and talk..should be put on at a rather late hour at regular intervals, so that the shockable know not to look. 1976S. Barstow Right True End iii. xii. 183, I think she's shockable. I'm not certain how her loyalty to me would stand the strain if she knew I was knocking off a colleague's wife. |