What's the difference between appalled and repulsed?

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.

Repulsed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Repulse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
  • (2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
  • (3) Scattering techniques are also shown to be useful in studying intermicellar interactions, like the Coulomb repulsion between GM1 micelles, in the regime fo the long-range interactions obtainable at very low ionic strength.
  • (4) Ideal size-exclusion chromatography could be achieved only in a narrow range of the conditions: first, the mobile phase must contain a weak salting-out electrolyte such as NaCl, and second, the mobile phase pH must be high enough that hydrophobic interactions between the solute and support are balanced by their electrostatic repulsion.
  • (5) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
  • (6) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
  • (7) Thinning is initially powered by gravity and capillary forces and will proceed in thin films (less than 100 nm) driven by intermolecular forces until the London-van der Waals attractive forces come to an equilibrium with electrostatic repulsion of similarly charged surfaces of the film.
  • (8) The compression isotherms of the two tetraether lipids PGC-I and DGC-I were very similar at pH 0, both molecules being uncharged, but at pH 5.6 or 8, PGC-I films were much more expanded than the neutral DGC-I, due to ionization of the phosphate group in PGC-I and the resulting charge-charge repulsion.
  • (9) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (10) Calculation of the electrostatic repulsive force using measured charge densities indicates the existence of an attractive force which may be acting over several hundred angstroms.
  • (11) With larger separations substantial repulsion was obtained.
  • (12) The atrocities in Paris and Brussels are largely the work of people born and raised in France and Belgium, often from families repulsed by the ideologies of their sons.
  • (13) The measurements on the air-dried, but still hydrated layer were performed in the attractive imaging mode in which the forces between tip and sample are much smaller than in AFM in the repulsive mode or in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).
  • (14) The method is based on the affinity of a cation-exchange resin for doxorubicin and the repulsion by the same resin of negatively-charged liposomes.
  • (15) The introduction of a negative charge at position 41 through the replacement of Cys-41 by either aspartate or glutamate reduced the enzymatic activities to very low but measurable levels, suggesting a charge-charge repulsive interaction between these residues and possibly one or both of the phosphates of NAD.
  • (16) The agreement is not convincing for the sedimentation equilibrium at low ionic strength, because here the experimental DNA concentration is too high for the truncated dilute solution expansion of the DNA-salt repulsion.
  • (17) I never felt that way, and certainly the idea of putting anything foreign in my body was especially repulsive.
  • (18) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
  • (19) Foreigners thinking of visiting India – particularly young women – will find these views not only repulsive, but dangerous.
  • (20) The repulsive effect toward neurons can be neutralized by one of the monoclonal antibodies, but not by the other.

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