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horrified

adjective as in frightened

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But the number of people killed in the operation has come in for criticism with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights saying it was "horrified".

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was "horrified" and called for "swift investigations."

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The UN Human Rights Office said it was "horrified" by the police operation, urging "prompt and effective investigations".

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“One of the themes of the show is that there are certain things worth being horrified over, that horror is itself the appropriate reaction to those things,” he said.

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He said he was horrified to find out recently that it resembled a Nazi symbol.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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