variants
or less commonly appal
appalled; appalling
: to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay
We were appalled by his behavior.
Examples of appall in a Sentence
The thought of war appalls me.
It appalls me to think of the way those children have been treated.
Recent Examples on the Web
That kind of appalls me to think that people need not expect that of themselves.
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David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
What appalls him now is a lack of accountability in Netanyahu’s government.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Kunzig: Alejandra, the weather this year kept finding fresh ways to appall us.
—Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
The whiteness of the fantasy village will appall some — including, presumably, those who protested Gelman’s leadership of The Wing, that women-only co-working operation whose own workforce was notoriously segregated by race.
—Grace Lavery, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2022
Are there some whose only aim is to appall and disturb?
—Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
These attacks weren't meant to appall liberals; they were meant to entice conservatives.
—Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
To borrow a phrase from 19th-century Parisian poets, Épater la bourgeoisie—to shock and appall the middle class.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 June 2022
No television cameras documented the brutal violence or produced the images needed to appall Americans in other states.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
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David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
What appalls him now is a lack of accountability in Netanyahu’s government.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Kunzig: Alejandra, the weather this year kept finding fresh ways to appall us.
—Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2021
The whiteness of the fantasy village will appall some — including, presumably, those who protested Gelman’s leadership of The Wing, that women-only co-working operation whose own workforce was notoriously segregated by race.
—Grace Lavery, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2022
Are there some whose only aim is to appall and disturb?
—Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
These attacks weren't meant to appall liberals; they were meant to entice conservatives.
—Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
To borrow a phrase from 19th-century Parisian poets, Épater la bourgeoisie—to shock and appall the middle class.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 June 2022
No television cameras documented the brutal violence or produced the images needed to appall Americans in other states.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
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appall
verb
ap·pall
ə-ˈpȯl 
: to cause to feel fear, shock, or disgust
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