aghast
Example Sentences
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Mays’ Salieri is at once aghast at such loutish behavior and bitterly envious that Mozart is exceptional enough to get away with it.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Cottrill said he had sculpted the 79-year-old Republican leader's "turkey neck" but the crypto backers were aghast and asked for a more flattering, less realistic look.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Ms. Ypi, aghast at the “caricature” of her grandmother that was “emerging here,” resolved to get to the truth about Leman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Veterans of Ashes tours past are aghast, though critics have perhaps not been paying enough attention to England's away trips under Stokes and Brendon McCullum.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
He stared at it, aghast, unable to take in what he was seeing...the wand that had survived so much...
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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