Antonym: ease, relief. Similar words: astonished, establishment, accomplishment, accomplishments, establishment of, comment on, chastisement, punish. Meaning: [-mənt] 
n. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising.
n. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising. 
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121. A program should follow the Law of Least Astonishment.
122. The detective turned suddenly to Mr. Grayson who had looked on with frank astonishment. "May I use a telephone, please?" asked The Thinking Machine.
123. To Caderousse's great astonishment, the knife, instead of piercing the count's breast, flew back blunted.
124. I recall my astonishment when he went into the background with a most brilliant pure blue where I had seen only unrevealed darkness.
125. The long-haired OA-Puss will celebrate her 24th birthday in January — much to the astonishment of Quentin Shaw, who has owned her since 1987.
126. Mimi, war, astonishment torpor, slavery, will daily wipe out those holy principles of thine.
127. The new President, too, seizes an early occasion to indorse and strongly construe that decision, and to express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained!
128. The man-eater of other is an astonishment first,[http://sentencedict.com] begin to be inspected to explorer glower photograph next!
129. While the count picked up the paper he put spurs to his horse, which leaped in astonishment at such an unusual stimulus, and shot away with the rapidity of an arrow.
130. An Australian amateur star gazer who spotted a rare impact on Jupiter told of his astonishment as he chanced upon the Earth-sized dent in its gassy atmosphere.
131. To our astonishment, over half of them are in and out the worm-eaten peanuts.
132. Therefore the camouflage paraphernalia appears, more or less visible, to your own astonishment.
133. I saw an old man the other day, to my astonishment, making the holes with a hoe for the seventieth time at least, and not for himself to lie down in!
134. But I have myself known people who believed, without any visible astonishment, that their house possessed the prophet's never-failing cruse of oil.
135. The man - eater of other an astonishment first, begin to be inspected to explorer glower photograph next!
136. My colleagues read the communique with astonishment rather than jubilation.
137. To his astonishment, he saw one of the double images disappear as he rotated the calcite.
138. He was filled with astonishment at seeing the dead body.
139. Drouet listened to her in astonishment. This was something new.
140. A program should follow the Law of Least Astonishment. What is this law?
141. Both astonishment and joy(sentencedict.com), she could hardly say a word.
142. Without any inkling of the subject , old Mr. Fang cried out in astonishment.
143. Captain Henry swallowed his astonishment and said, " Aye aye, sir. ".
144. Michael Corleone looked at him with what seemed to be friendly astonishment.
145. Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment.
146. The city man watched this activity for some time with great astonishment.
147. The Queen of Scots rolled her eyes at Mrs Seton to express her astonishment at the presumption of the farmer's daughter.
148. Chang Su - su and Lin Pei - shan turned to stare at Fan Po - wen in astonishment.
149. Nearly every line is quotable, but I'll repeat only this: "A program should follow the 'Law of Least Astonishment.'
150. I sighed in astonishment - the utter desolation depicted in that rude scrawl was overpowering.
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