(a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, across the Irish sea, bankers in the City were today watching nervously, aghast even, that the Irish government could take such an extraordinary step.
(2) GCHQ was aghast that a 29-year-old who was not even employed by the US government had access to the files, Rusbridger says.
(3) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
(4) Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, said he was aghast at the tweets.
(5) And it is socially divisive as well.” He can’t understand May’s assertion that grammars can be introduced in a way that lifts up all schools, and is aghast at her claim that the plans will not mean a return to a “binary system”.
(6) Amid a tide of publicity, hopes that she might win took hold among liberal commentators aghast at the rise of extremism and militancy in Pakistan .
(7) Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.
(8) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(9) Paterson then looked aghast as two penalty claims, against Ben Haim and Aouate, were turned down.
(10) H ow do you like us now?” ran the headline on the Tico Times, the English language newspaper based in Costa Rica, after the little Central American nation with a population of just 4.5m stunned Italy with a 1-0 victory to qualify for the knockout stages, eliminate England and leave observers aghast.
(11) She went with her mother, who was aghast when she understood why they had been called in.
(12) It also showed "a huge proportion of our pensions disappear in fees – with charges swallowing up to 40% of the value of the pension (over the pension's lifetime) and that the typical saver was aghast when they discovered what an apparently modest charges of 1.5% might actually mean to the eventual pay-out many years later."
(13) Sacher-Masoch was very much alive, and aghast to discover how his name had been used.
(14) Journalists trawling through the recent jobs, contacts and pronouncements of LSE academics, including directors Lord Giddens and Sir Howard Davies – who has now resigned – have been aghast.
(15) Green groups are aghast that a flagship policy called for in opposition by both Lib Dems and Tories, and which they last year tried to force on the Labour government, will now not be implemented in the coalition's first energy bill to be published this year.
(16) But the Tory leadership was aghast at Fabricant's proposal for a pact with Ukip.
(17) When the FA said on Monday that it was unable to charge Scudamore with bringing the game into disrepute because it was a private matter, many within the organisation were aghast that it had not also condemned the views expressed in the emails.
(18) Five minutes after the resumption, the manager’s feelings were plain for everyone to see: he, like Newcastle’s players and fans, was aghast when Cissé shanked the ball wide from five yards after John Ruddy spilled a long shot by Townsend.
(19) A senior Ukip source said the party was “absolutely aghast” at what is alleged to have happened, with just 48 days to go until the general election.
(20) Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, said on Today that he was aghast at the appointment and took it as an indication that Corbyn was appointing hard-left allies instead of building a broad-based shadow cabinet.
Ghast
Definition:
(a.) To strike aghast; to affright.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(2) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
(3) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
(4) What’s happened is ghastly but we’ve got to ask ourselves some big questions,” he said.
(5) During a prolific career stretching back almost half a century, the Swedish author Henning Mankell, best known for his Wallander series, has produced several million words, many of them dealing with ghastly crimes.
(6) When I am asked who I consider a role model (another ghastly word), Shirley usually comes to mind.
(7) The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing.
(8) But the most ghastly sketch and one I still find terribly funny was The Liver Donor .
(9) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
(10) Not only have the people spoken and won, but the old administration, Obama and all those ghastly people, are out and the Trump people are in,” he said.
(11) One of the more brilliant concerns a weekend at the home of a ghastly senior professor.
(12) "Interviewing the rapists was ghastly," she says, "but the worst moment was when they left.
(13) Economies may fail, banking systems may collapse, but we'll always have Davos , late capitalism's annual attempt to recreate the experience of what it would be like to spend eternity in hell's most ghastly private members' club.
(14) The cost of inaction or further delaying our response is too ghastly to contemplate,” said David Phiri, subregional coordinator for Southern Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
(15) At least the champions did not totally crumple but ultimately it was a futile exercise, delaying their first spell of prolonged pressure until Sergio Agüero had scored twice, Yaya Touré had pinched another and Nasri had rounded off a ghastly five-minute spell for United at the start of the second half when David de Gea was beaten twice in quick succession.
(16) The World Trade Organisation has had a truly ghastly week, the sort that would make governments or cabinet ministers resign.
(17) But back in the General Staff's Versailles-like HQ, among the columns, frescos and sweeping staircases, the Fragonards and the Bouchers on the walls and the marble floors underfoot, the aristocrats and the officer class – their faces mean, smug, scarred or fat – trade ghastly obscenities about acceptable death tolls and national honour, their moral universe and patterns of thought throttled by protocol, precedent, military codes and banal social etiquette.
(18) The main problem is that Hague recommended including 15 Polish MEPs from the Law and Justice party, which has absorbed the even more extreme nationalist League of Polish Families (described on the BBC's Today Programme by Poland's chief rabbi as "beyond the pale" because of their anti-Semitism) and the ghastly League of Self-Defence.
(19) In May 2002, when dissident soldiers mutinied against their commanders in the central city of Kisangani, Monuc troops did almost nothing as those commanders (including Laurent Nkunda) oversaw the killing of at least 80 civilians and a ghastly bout of rape.
(20) Stafford Smith said: "Shaker was absolutely thrilled with the letter from Hague, it shows how a certain amount of personal commitment by someone in power can help someone who has been downtrodden in such a ghastly way.