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• v  fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• Chicago, in director Rob Marshall's bold, strutting, rapaciously funny version, puts the cynicism up front, where it can titillate, horrify and instruct us.
• The very notion of sequels might horrify Depp, Hollywood's best current example of dreamboat movie star and superserious character actor.
• These relationships horrify some feminists.

• dismay
• alarm
• appal
• appall

News & Articles

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• Wall Street’s greatest enemy: The man who knows too much
  What Michael Winston knows about corporate crimes will horrify you. That's why financial giants want to destroy him
  Aug. 28, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Chris Grayling in guardian.co.uk
  The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said: "This decision will horrify most reasonable people in the UK. It shows just how incompetent the government has been at managing the problem of preachers of hate and, frankly, it makes a mockery of the...
• President Bush in FOXNews
  They'll kill women and children, knowing that the images of their brutality will horrify civilized people. Their goal is to force us to retreat,Bush said on Wednesday.
• Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
  The over-representation of black people on the government's database should horrify anyone who cares about justice and fair play. There is a real danger that the DNA database just reinforces the myth that black people are more likely to commit... Sarah Teather http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Teather&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHiyI9cU4aX86Qv1rGpnHioYYCC8A Ekklesia http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/6837&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG1LaLpn2UhUIXncn1BM-oD6rrrPQ Feb 28, 2008 48177 65256 horrifying These are men and women who have made the selfless decision" to protect the nation, Obama said of the victims. "It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil."