Sample Sentences for
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
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    For an appalling moment Meg believed, and in that moment she felt her brain being gathered up into IT.  (source)
    appalling = shockingly terrible
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    He can be appalling when he is angry, though he is kind enough if humoured.  (source)
    appalling = horrible
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    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
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    Deprivation of soma–appalling thought!  (source)
    appalling = horrible
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    It was appallingly complicated.  (source)
    appallingly = terribly
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    They never cease to appall me.†  (source)
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    Unappalled she moved once more through the city of thin partitions, wanting to be back there.†  (source)
    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.
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    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)
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    Property was thus appall'd, That the self was not the same; Single nature's double name Neither two nor one was call'd Reason in itself confounded Saw division grow together…  (source)
    appall'd = horrified
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    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)
    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.
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    Outside, in the hall, with the door slammed he was laughing and she was crying, and they both stood appalled at the other's reaction.  (source)
    appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
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    An appalling loneliness came over him.  (source)
    appalling = horrible
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