appallingin a sentence
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The live in appalling conditions.appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in. (source)appalling = terrible or horrible
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She has scheduled a news conference to respond to the appalling accusations.appalling = horrible
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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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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
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"Appalling," said Frances. (source)Appalling = terrible or horrible
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It was appallingly complicated. (source)appallingly = terribly
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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
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It's almost impossible to appall a boy of nineteen.† (source)appall = shock or horrify due to being so terrible
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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 isstandard 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)appalls = shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
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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)unappalling = not shockingly terrible or horriblestandard 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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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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An appalling loneliness came over him. (source)appalling = horrible
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