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aghast
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  • "What was that for?" he says, aghast.  (source)
  • Harry watched, aghast, as a long black snake shot out of it, fell heavily onto the floor between them, and raised itself, ready to strike.  (source)
    aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
  • HALLY: ...Say you stumble or bump into somebody … do they take off any points? SAM: (aghast) Hally…! HALLY: When you're dancing — if you and your partner collide into another couple. (Hally can get no further. SAM has collapsed with laughter.)  (source)
    aghast = shocked and surprised
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  • Her father, though proud she was "joining up with the good guys," was aghast that she was doing it in North Carolina.  (source)
    aghast = shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay
  • Polly and Digory looked at each other, aghast. ... Certainly, she was not at all the sort of person one would like to take home.  (source)
  • When I sent him my schedule, he was aghast.†  (source)
  • "Your Excellency," exclaimed Yaroslav, aghast.†  (source)
  • "But surely they would have needed your consent," she said, aghast.†  (source)
  • ....Louie was aghast.†  (source)
  • Whenever the rain stopped he was left disappointed and angry—angry most of all at his father and then aghast at himself for it.†  (source)
  • Part of me was aghast when I decided that the answer was no. I'd only waded into street life in the Bronx; I never got into its deepest, darkest waters.†  (source)
  • Macri was still aghast from the images she had just recorded.†  (source)
  • They seemed aghast at the notion that Owen Meany was cast as the Prince of Peace.†  (source)
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