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appalling
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  • His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?"  (source)
    appalling = caused concern
  • For an appalling moment Meg believed, and in that moment she felt her brain being gathered up into IT.  (source)
    appalling = shockingly terrible
  • Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.  (source)
    appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
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  • (appalled) You mean don't dance?  (source)
    appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
  • "Appalling," said Frances.  (source)
    Appalling = terrible or horrible
  • It was appallingly complicated.  (source)
    appallingly = terribly
  • She with such fear O'erwhelmed me, at the sight of her appall'd, That of the height all hope I lost.†  (source)
    appall'd = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
  • It's almost impossible to appall a boy of nineteen.†  (source)
    appall = shock or horrify due to being so terrible
  • Unappalled she moved once more through the city of thin partitions, wanting to be back there.†  (source)
    Unappalled = not shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappalled means not and reverses the meaning of appalled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.†  (source)
    appalls = shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
  • It seemed, in truth, to be a spot devoted to seclusion, and the sisters imbibed a soothing impression of security, as they gazed upon its romantic though not unappalling beauties.†  (source)
    unappalling = not shockingly terrible or horrible
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappalling means not and reverses the meaning of appalling. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Even Wilbur, who could eat almost anything, was appalled. "Imagine wanting a junky old rotten egg!" he muttered.  (source)
    appalled = shocked by how horrible something is
  • An appalling loneliness came over him.  (source)
    appalling = horrible
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