Amusing and Shocking

verb

• Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion.
  • usage: "The play amused the ladies"
  • synonyms: amuse, divert, disport
• Make (somebody) laugh.
  • usage: "The clown amused the children"
  • synonyms: amuse

adjective

• Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining.
  • usage: "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"
  • synonyms: amusive, diverting
• Arousing or provoking laughter.
  • usage: "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
  • synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Amuse.
• (a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

verb

• Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off.
  • usage: "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
  • synonyms: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback
• Strike with disgust or revulsion.
  • usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
  • synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
• Strike with horror or terror.
  • usage: "The news of the bombing shocked her"
  • synonyms: shock
• Collide violently.
  • synonyms: shock
• Collect or gather into shocks.
  • usage: "shock grain"
  • synonyms: shock
• Subject to electrical shocks.
  • synonyms: shock
• Inflict a trauma upon.
  • synonyms: traumatize, traumatise, shock

adjective

• Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism.
  • usage: "lurid details of the accident"
  • synonyms: lurid
• Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
  • usage: "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
  • synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Shock.
• (a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.