adj Shocked and horrified, usually by something offensive or upsetting.
- 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.
— Kamala Thiagarajan, Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers (2024)
- 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.
— Stephen Roberts, Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840) (2021)
- She was appalled by the state of the abandoned building.
- He felt appalled at how the animals were being treated.
- I was appalled when I saw how much trash people had left on the beach.
