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appalled

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.

adjective

  1. 1

    Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.

    But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.

    West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.

    Dr. Frank Hoffman, a gynecologist and founder of the program, says he was appalled by the sheer numbers of cases of early-stage breast cancer that were being missed, not just in Germany but around the world.

Etymology

From appall + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of appallsimple past and past participle of appall

  2. 2

    Also a form of appalsimple past and past participle of appal

Forms

comparative
more appalled
superlative
most appalled
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).