Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being aghast or filled with amazement or horror: as, an expression of aghastness in the eyes.
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- noun The state or quality of being
aghast .
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Examples
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Joe Scarborough, darling of the Beltway elite, has tried on the pose of aghastness at liberal society's forgiveness for all of Somalia and its piratical ways; did the Post not get the memo?
Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009
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Joe Scarborough, darling of the Beltway elite, has tried on the pose of aghastness at liberal society's forgiveness for all of Somalia and its piratical ways; did the Post not get the memo?
Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009
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'Don't worry about it,' Sarah said, amused at my aghastness on behalf of womenkind.
In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976
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"When the Irish people rejected the Lisbon treaty a year ago the initial reactions ranged from one of shock to horror, to aghastness and temper and vexation," said McCreevy, the EU's Internal Market Commissioner.
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i am aghast! well, aghastness has connotations of surprise, so perhaps i am not aghast as in surprised, but aghast as in just plain aghast.amazed. horrified. that aghast. that is SO ANNOYING. beyond annoying. i know you've deliniated the whole thing, but really, the mind boggles. why did she not believe when
A Contract with God by Will Eisner (Plus more book giveaways and Trouble at the library) 2008
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So I do totally see your point and at the same time can’t really work up any aghastness at the response.
davidrothman.net » Mozy demonstrates the wrong way to talk to users 2007
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