Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective struck with fear, dread, or consternation.

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  • adjective shocked, horrified by something unpleasant
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of appall.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of appal.

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  • adjective struck with fear, dread, or consternation

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Examples

  • And it's not every day that you get an email from one using the word "appalled" when referring to an article in a respected journal like Pediatrics.

    News 2012

  • Toryn studied her for a long moment while he bit back a dozen comments that would likely cause her to swoon in appalled shock.

    The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009

  • But all war is ugly, a fulsome horror that, someday, as with gladiatorial contests, we will look back at in appalled disbelief: we did that?

    Megalomania and war, from Cannae to Iraq Richard Cohen 2010

  • The inclusion of B'Tselem in a list of groups called "questionable" and associated with the word "appalled" is a shameful smear.

    Rights and Democracy: Board members strike back 2010

  • Having grown up in Maine, I used that well-worn term 'appalled and aghast,' so I started looking into it, Orcutt said.

    Whoopie pies spark food fight between Pennsylvania, Maine 2011

  • The inclusion of B'Tselem in a list of groups called "questionable" and associated with the word "appalled" is a shameful smear.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • Having grown up in Maine, I used that well-worn term 'appalled and aghast,' so I started looking into it, Orcutt said.

    Whoopie pies spark food fight between Pennsylvania, Maine 2011

  • (Isaiah 59: 15-16) (this is the only place where the word appalled is used for the way God feels -- in other words, the only thing which we know God is appalled by is if people are not doing justice) "Blessed are they who maintain justice ...."

    As People of Faith . . . We Must Impeach 2008

  • She gave an impassioned speech about how being Jewish, what Israeli is ostensibly doing in her name appalled and saddened her.

    Dennis Perrin: My Yearly Kos Diary 2008

  • Cuff assumed an expression of appalled innocence that affected Mrs. Tipton not in the least.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

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