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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
appall .
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Examples
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What appalls is the brazen lack of concern for those his position charged him to protect: all Americans.
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So the whole age 50 thing really, I mean, it kind of appalls me because my mother was 50 when she was diagnosed.
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We put you up, and I know that kind of appalls you.
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I shouldn't even be telling you about the book, because it appalls me to think of it getting in the hands of a parent or -- sigh -- a child.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: Why Maggie's Diet Is a Bad Idea Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh 2011
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I shouldn't even be telling you about the book, because it appalls me to think of it getting in the hands of a parent or -- sigh -- a child.
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: Why Maggie's Diet Is a Bad Idea Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh 2011
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It appalls me that I need a “standing” tag with such regularity.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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When they look at him, they see the Enlightenment and it appalls them in the same way that creationists appall the enlightened.
Terry Curtis Fox: Paladino, Rabbis and a New Religious Taxonomy Terry Curtis Fox 2010
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"All that expands the spirit, yet appalls, gather around these summits."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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The thought of the long day's travel with the dogs appalls me; the thought of the keen frost in the morning and of the frozen sled-lashings frightens me —
The Night-Born 2010
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And finally, its insistence on inserting itself into governmental affairs in a country which has as one of its founding principles a separation between church and state appalls me.
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