All 8 Uses of
appalling
in
Heart of Darkness
- For a moment I stood appalled, as though by a warning.†
Chpt 1
- One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner:
Chpt 1 *appalling = causing strong feelings of disapproval or horror
- You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.†
Chpt 1
- We were cut off from the comprehension of our surroundings; we glided past like phantoms, wondering and secretly appalled, as sane men would be before an enthusiastic outbreak in a madhouse.†
Chpt 2
- It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short, leaving us stiffened in a variety of silly attitudes, and obstinately listening to the nearly as appalling and excessive silence.†
Chpt 2
- His covering had fallen off, and his body emerged from it pitiful and appalling as from a winding-sheet.†
Chpt 3
- After all, this was the expression of some sort of belief; it had candor, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed truth—the strange commingling of desire and hate.†
Chpt 3
- " 'Love him,' she finished eagerly, silencing me into an appalled dumbness.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible