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appalled

/uh-pawld/US // əˈpɔld //

讶异,惊愕,惊恐万状,惊骇

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : overcome with horror, shock, outrage, or dismay: I am appalled at the very idea of selling one’s vote.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhorrify

Examples

  • His upper-middle-class parents—played by Jeffrey Wright and Jennifer Hudson—are appalled and angry, but they also feel helpless.

  • “He’s obviously very shaken, very appalled, very angry,” Contee said, adding that rioters stole items from the officer and, he thinks, tried to get his firearm.

  • Stacie MacDonald, a former Republican candidate for the House of Delegates who is helping to finance the lawsuit, said in a statement she was “absolutely appalled” at the county’s steps because of the fragile state of the economy.

  • After the first week, my husband and I, both also working from home, were appalled.

  • So we shouldn’t be appalled by that, but we should make sure that everybody is paying their fair share.

  • I remember being appalled that he killed off Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop.

  • Israelis often are amused and appalled by the crazies attracted to the Holy Land, and not only for religious reasons.

  • But outsiders, generally, are embarrassed or appalled, and so are a growing number of locals.

  • The notion of anarchy so appalled the conservative Reagan, he came out against Briggs, and it was defeated.

  • “I was truly appalled by the realization of the deceit involved,” Bradlee wrote.

  • A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses.

  • Louis was too much appalled by the two leading charges, to shew any surprise at the third.

  • The anger and rebellion had been comatose in these years of freedom, but the maturer brain was the more uneasy, at times appalled.

  • The people huddled together, and looked into each others' appalled faces, and no man said a word.

  • It was this absence of interest after close upon a year in the country that appalled him as much as his inner visioning.