as in aghast
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as in shocked
to cause an unpleasant surprise for
conditions inside the house overrun with cats simply appalled animal control officers
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Recent Examples of appalled
Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Alma refuses to stay for the ending, and Alfred is equally appalled.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
Aggie is appalled at Nile’s presumptuousness, his entitlement.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
Abramovich looked appalled and said the club’s sporting director Frank Arnesen had told him Gomis was a top priority.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Alma refuses to stay for the ending, and Alfred is equally appalled.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
Jefferson—the original originalist—would have been appalled at some of our recent Supreme Court decisions.
—The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
Aggie is appalled at Nile’s presumptuousness, his entitlement.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for appalled
Adjective
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This is so outrageous that even Creepy Professor Oliver McCreepenstein, a middle-aged married man currently seducing his 17-year-old student, is aghast.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2026
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Teddy declares, simultaneously aghast and titillated.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The timing of the resignation shocked players and union staff.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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Her mom, Stefanie, brought her in to a doctor and when the X-rays came back, they were shocked to find a 56-degree curve in her spine.—
Marielle Mohs,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The partygoers don’t really know how to react until Stab interrupts the performance to choke Kid out, and then everyone becomes horrified.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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You’re just horrified at what those kinds of impacts have.—
Andrew Dampf,
Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In September, parishioners were stunned when the archdiocese announced that Storey had resigned amid a criminal investigation by the Prairie Village Police Department.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
19 Feb. 2026
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The killings stunned Austin and became one of the city’s most notorious unsolved cases.—
Julianna Duennes Russ,
Austin American Statesman,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Don't be surprised when that stubbornness ends up being one of their best character traits.—
Bridget Shirvell,
Parents,
17 Feb. 2026
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Everyone, including production, was surprised to find out what had transpired.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Others were just as dismayed, noting the overscale chandeliers blocked the view of the stage from the upper-tier seats in the opera house.—
Christopher Robbins,
Curbed,
9 Feb. 2026
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These tend to involve love affairs or status issues or shock revelations and result in dismayed reactions and abrupt comeuppances for previously unflappable characters.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Olivier tried successfully to get the reader to understand how a gentle, pacific young man could come to kill more than a thousand people, and so capturing the tone and empathetic portrayal not only of Simo Häyhä and his colleagues but also of the often-bewildered Russian soldiers was essential.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
30 Jan. 2026
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The usually positive Gauff went negative, lacked energy and seemed bewildered and overwhelmed.—
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Appalled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appalled. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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