What's the difference between appalled and flabbergasted?

Appalled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Appall

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (2) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (3) No one condones what happened in the 70s, but I think this is pretty appalling."
  • (4) While Brown – finally fit again after appalling knee trouble that very nearly ended his career –began a home game for the first time since January 2012, Poyet only found room in Sunderland's starting XI for five of the 14 summer signings secured by Roberto De Fanti, the club's director of football.
  • (5) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (6) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
  • (7) [The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986.
  • (8) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
  • (9) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.
  • (10) But up against the dislocation of the industrial revolution, ideas of citizenship had to change, as inspirational leaders appalled by the suffering of the new working class sought to transform a brutal economic free-for-all into a civilised society.
  • (11) It has shocked and appalled, but with the compulsive appeal of something like entertainment.
  • (12) And when S&P downgraded the US long-term credit rating from AAA to AA+, it was doing so for some sound reasons – because of the appalling immaturity of the Republican Tea Partiers in their negotiations over the debt ceiling.
  • (13) Despite its abundant natural resources and potential wealth, the figures on hunger in Congo are appalling.
  • (14) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
  • (15) The year since Jo Cox’s death has seen rapid political change around the world: unexpected election results, a rise in digital interference in democratic elections by foreign powers , and a spate of appalling terrorist attacks.
  • (16) It’s because of this power that most people in poverty are in work , and the state must pay billions to supplement their appalling wages.
  • (17) While acknowledging his appalling failings as a man, we also, surely, should not entirely blind ourselves completely to the many hugely interesting and important things that he did.
  • (18) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
  • (19) Leyland regularly took to Twitter to draw attention to what she felt was an appalling miscarriage of justice.
  • (20) We are appalled that the government should use those who have made considerable personal and professional commitments to this country, and who enrich our own culture, as a negotiating chip.

Flabbergasted


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was flabbergasted, as were the rest of the 30 oceanographers.
  • (2) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
  • (3) "I'd be flabbergasted if the Puntland fields were worth the time of the big players such as BP or Shell.
  • (4) Abbott confirmed that claim and said he was disappointed and flabbergasted by the delay.
  • (5) We were all flabbergasted that the little boy from Quebec city managed to overturn everything."
  • (6) Given its indifference toward women and racism, its eagerness to plunder public coffers and its outright economic and medical hostility toward its own labor force, it is flabbergasting that any of us remain fans of the NFL at all.
  • (7) Abbott’s comments to the Australian newspaper – that he was “flabbergasted” at an apparent decision to delay the acquisition of 12 new submarines – had been contradicted by senior defence officials , Turnbull said.
  • (8) Put simply it’s, “What the actual fuck?” “I don’t even think you are human!” cries one listener, flabbergasted by Broke Up and its squiggling rave synths, which sound as if they’re gasping for life.
  • (9) And he had huge hands, too.” Ron, all these years later, was still moved by, flabbergasted by, the attention Reagan paid to him as a boy.
  • (10) Given that the bugbot video is at least three years old, I'd be flabbergasted if there isn't a production line silently screwing the wings on to a miniature death squadron in some Nevadan hangar right now.
  • (11) Add in the fact that Bert had been hoping to cash in on stock and that Roger has seen his lead at Chevy subverted behind his back and you can understand why SCDP's jungle king has chosen to break the news to a flabbergasted Peggy Olson from the safety of his former rivals' office.
  • (12) But a former Howard-era minister, Peter Reith, disagreed, saying Abbott’s comments to Sheridan that he was “flabbergasted” by an apparent delay in acquiring new submarines would hurt the government.
  • (13) To say that the news has unsettled the party of which he is now the nominal head would be a gross understatement – thunderstruck, flabbergasted or devastated would be closer to the mark.
  • (14) In a story revealing the leak, in the Australian newspaper, Abbott was quoted as saying he had been “not just disappointed” but “flabbergasted” by the delay.
  • (15) "I heard Tim Farron speak earlier and Nick Clegg said this to me as well, they are flabbergasted that essentially we are in a situation where a man … where the allegations and the evidence have now been thoroughly tested and have actually been found to be credible, so nobody is suggesting that they think we are lying."
  • (16) Councillor Trevor Blythe, who represents Clifton ward for the Lib Dems on Bristol city council, said: "We were absolutely flabbergasted when we heard he'd been arrested."
  • (17) "I am so flabbergasted right now; that may be the single weirdest factoid of the entire World Cup."
  • (18) Yet one of the flabbergasting aspects of the Guardian's story about 'Billionaires Row' was the calm acceptance of such spectacular property hoarding.
  • (19) Former prime minister Tony Abbott , who has strenuously denied being the source of the leak to his friend, journalist Greg Sheridan, was quoted in the story in the Australia saying he was “not just disappointed” but also “flabbergasted” by the delay.
  • (20) People … will be flabbergasted that nothing has been done about this," Ummuna said.