shocking

Adjective

• 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
    

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  • lurid details of the accident
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  disgraceful , scandalous , shameful , lurid