shockingest

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English

Etymology

shocking +‎ -est

Adjective

shockingest

  1. (informal) superlative form of shocking: most shocking
    • 1853, The Universalist Companion, with an Almanac and Register:
      A neighbor called one day wearing one of the shockingest bad hats ever seen, which he deposited on the floor beside his chair while he related his errand. On riding to depart, the hat had disappeared, []
    • 1872, Charles William Wood, The Argosy, volume 14, page 297:
      The fever left him and he was in the shockingest state of weakness you could imagine.