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- verb UK Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
appal .
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Examples
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Nobody, including Mr. Goldfarb, has yet come up with anything Mr. Goldfarb “actually wrote” which appals me any less than what I originally thought (and still think) he wrote.
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What appals me is the lack of sympathy by parents of able children towards our children, who they perceive as a nuisance and a burden.
Britain's divided schools: a disturbing portrait of inequality Anushka Asthana 2010
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The thought of destroying an author's drafts and revisions, even if they've expressly requested it, appals most literature enthusiasts.
Jonathan Franzen's pulped fiction Stephanie Merritt 2010
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It appals me that illegals and prominent Arab immigrants with access to high priced vehicles have Medical cards and access to E R care for simple colds and sore toes.
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Imagine a girl in a manor house in a society where time has been forbidden, where everyone is held in a seventeenth century world run by computers, doomed to an arranged marriage that appals her, tangled in an assassination plot she both dreads and desires.
Fox to Adapt Incarceron - The Next Harry Potter-type Franchise? | /Film 2010
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It appals me to think how many of those families have now irrevocably come to pieces.
If you're old and still in touch with your family, count your blessings 2010
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Like many spaceship-dwelling cowboys who own giant carrots which flit in and out of existence, the thought of rabbits being eaten by farmers probably appals you.
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If the idea of a barbecue without an enormous piece of meat centre stage appals you, then try Giorgio Locatelli's bistecca fiorentina method.
Food & drink 2010
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It appals me that mediocrity known as Iain Duncan Smith is being relied upon by a future Conservative government to fill any official role.
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While as a Jew I admired his article, the magazine's continued political slant appals me.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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