unshockable
/ʌnˈʃɒkəb(ə)l
/adjective
Impossible to shock, horrify, or disgust: most doctors are fairly unshockable...
- I thought they prided themselves on being unshockable.
- The networks, it seems, have found out that the kind of viewers they were chasing - young, unshockable and preferably intoxicated - didn't actually watch much television.
- Even the unshockable viewers of BBC's Room 101 this summer were offended by Milligan's wish that he suffer ‘an early death’ or leprosy.
Derivatives
unshockability
- They recognise one another through their knowledge of shared trivia, yet there is also an element of bravado and deliberate unshockability.
- But because it also seeks to congratulate its audience for its urbane unshockability, it never strays beyond the limits of middlebrow complacency.
- But then, haven't unpunished cases of bare-faced impunity sent all of us into unshockability?
- take a load off someone's mind
- take a lot of (or some) ——
- take a (or the) hint
- take a (or the) load off one's feet
- take-apart
- take a poke at someone
- take a poor view of
- take a powder
- take a rain check
- take a running jump
- take a shine to
- take a toss
- take a trip (or walk) down memory lane
- takeaway
- take away from
- take a wicket
- take a woman to wife
- take-back
- take breath
- take care
- take care of
- take charge
- take cognizance of
- take counsel
- take cover