Both Uses of
appalling
in
Crime and Punishment
- And she had destroyed herself, crushed by an insult that had appalled and amazed that childish soul, had smirched that angel purity with unmerited disgrace and torn from her a last scream of despair, unheeded and brutally disregarded, on a dark night in the cold and wet while the wind howled….†
Chpt 6.6
- He was appallingly dressed: his clothes torn and dirty, soaked with a night's rain.†
Chpt 6.7 *
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible