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  • It was appallingly complicated.   (source)
    appallingly = terribly
  • One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner:   (source)
    appalling = causing strong feelings of disapproval or horror
  • How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path!   (source)
    appalled = horrified (causing strong feelings of disapproval)
  • Papa, alert and appalled, stepped closer.†   (source)
  • Clayborn Lockett, an archaeologist who briefly employed Ruess as a cook while excavating an Anasazi cliff dwelling in 1934, told Rusho that "he was appalled by the seemingly reckless manner in which Everett moved around dangerous cliffs."†   (source)
  • Louie swam in the lakes, ate appalling quantities of food, and socialized.†   (source)
  • "If it's any comfort to you, Mrs. Wexler," Judge Ford remarked with biting dignity, "I am just as appalled by our purported relationship."†   (source)
  • Bean was appalled.†   (source)
  • Miss Crocker echoed, appalled by such temerity.†   (source)
  • Their posture is appalling as a rule, and judging from their songs they snivel and wallow, grin and bear it having gone the way of the foxtrot.†   (source)
  • Stone chips and flesh and blood scattered everywhere, an appalling sight.†   (source)
  • As their appallingly inadequate diet begins to tell, the prisoners tire.†   (source)
  • I was appalled.†   (source)
  • "I guess it's a good thing we don't have to do this too often," he had said, catching my appalled expression.†   (source)
  • Langdon turned, appalled.†   (source)
  • They were mouthing soundlessly at Dumbledore, apparently too appalled to speak.†   (source)
  • They were appalled, honey, they were horrified!†   (source)
  • "Was everyone told this?" he asked, sounding appalled at the idea.†   (source)
  • At first, I'm appalled.†   (source)
  • I couldn't look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller.†   (source)
  • Jordan was on diaper detail while Selena interviewed Lacy Houghton, and Sam was appallingly bad at going to sleep on his own.†   (source)
  • My grandmother was appalled, but for several years she didn't understand Owen or appreciate him; to her, he was "that boy," or "that little guy," or "that voice."†   (source)
  • "Well fan my brow," cried Finny, giving us his stunned look of total appalled horrified amazement, "who would have thought that!†   (source)
  • When I fantasized about moving in with him, I also dredged up my deepest fears: that he would tell me I smelled bad, that I had terrible bathroom habits, that my taste in music and television was appalling.†   (source)
  • The children looked at one another, appalled.†   (source)
  • I wanted to know more and wondered how I'd get a chance to talk to Kate again, without her appalling chaperone.†   (source)
  • I was appalled at this crime That robbed youth Of their "special" time.†   (source)
  • The leopard is Mr. D's sacred animal, you see, and Mr. D was appalled that someone would stuff such a noble creature.†   (source)
  • I've had the most appalling evening.†   (source)
  • Flora's father would have been appalled.†   (source)
  • Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.†   (source)
  • Slowly Kit pieced together the details of what seemed to her an appallingly dull history.†   (source)
  • In her stiff lace dress and her fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo, Rahel looked like an Airport Fairy with appalling taste.†   (source)
  • Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.†   (source)
  • It was a woefully inadequate response, and Artemis was instantly appalled with himself.†   (source)
  • Appalled, Shifre put her hands up to her own pale braids.†   (source)
  • He seemed appalled that I had even asked.†   (source)
  • She'll be too appalled by the conditions in there.†   (source)
  • There was a rattle off to the left, and Eragon was appalled to see the second Ra'zac fit a muzzle over Saphira's head.†   (source)
  • Adam had been appalled at the prospect, losing the cool he always tried to display to Amy.†   (source)
  • Those billions who had been appalled by the unprecedented savagery of the South Bressia campaign would have been pleased to see Kassad court-martialed or tried for war crimes.†   (source)
  • Jenny would have been appalled, but the way I saw it, it sure beat the toilet.†   (source)
  • You may be appalled at the thought of a man throwing up into one of these exquisite decorative gardens, but the Minister certainly wasn't the first.†   (source)
  • The most appalling things were happening, but the American press said nothing, and Jewish bankers on the other side of the pond did nothing to make America declare war on Germany, although they could easily have advised such a course of action if they'd wanted to.†   (source)
  • I was appalled.†   (source)
  • Of course, my mother is appalled that I'm not making you Indian food," she says, studying the contents of the pan.†   (source)
  • Also, she wore black, which appalled me, as though her son were already dead.†   (source)
  • We want to get to the titular house, of course, to meet the last, appalling members of the Usher clan, but Poe doesn't want us there before he's prepared us.†   (source)
  • So the carving is done by force, under the most appalling conditions.†   (source)
  • You hear stories about ancillaries, and it seems like the most awful thing, the most viscerally appalling thing the Radchaai have done.†   (source)
  • He followed Josh into the opening and pulled the shelves closed behind him just as the cellar door turned into a foul black liquid and flowed down the stairs with the most appalling stench of sulfur.†   (source)
  • She had been appalled to find herself in the company of Macon Ravenwood's family, but had been civil as Link helped her to the Beater.†   (source)
  • He happened to be a specialist in treating nervous disorders and was so appalled by Olmsted's appearance that he offered to take him to his own house in Hampstead Heath, outside London, and care for him personally.†   (source)
  • Loose-joint breaking-point colors, and whether you find them beautiful or find them appalling, they do make the women seem more festive, and less exhausted.†   (source)
  • And as the dark thing that was his clothes rushed down, I swung the scythe and saw it strike his neck and felt the weight of his neck and saw him fall sideways, both hands reaching for the appalling wound.†   (source)
  • Parcells was appalled, at not only the outcome but the interpretation of the outcome—that the difference in the game had been Walsh's strategy.†   (source)
  • She loved reading and was appalled when I said I read very little.†   (source)
  • Motorists around them drive slowly and sanely, appalled by the thought of having to pull over and listen to half an hour of disclaimers, advisements, and tangled justifications from the likes of these.†   (source)
  • He stared at her, groggy but appalled.†   (source)
  • They brought no lasting pleasure, particularly since he knew that if he told his wife about them she would be appalled by his mistreatment of the other woman but not by his infidelity to her.†   (source)
  • He was appalled, completely shocked, and so was Axe.†   (source)
  • Mayor Swaney was deluged with angry phone calls and e-mails from Times readers who were appalled that he had kicked the Fugees out of the town park after Christmas.†   (source)
  • In an instant the magnitude of her own mistake was revealed to her, and she asked herself, appalled, how she could have nurtured such a chimera in her heart for so long and with so much ferocity.†   (source)
  • He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.†   (source)
  • I was appalled to see how wrinkled and used up T looked.†   (source)
  • I am simply appalled!†   (source)
  • But the idea of living out his life in the mind-groping-ahead-through-possible-futures that guided hurtling spaceships appalled him.†   (source)
  • I stared at her with a look I hoped spoke appalled shock.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Grote, coming upon the appalling scene, cast her out.†   (source)
  • "Well, I hope he's treating you well," Norah said, appalled to hear her mother's voice, right down to the intonation.†   (source)
  • At this very moment, Stevens, his lordship is doing what he can to remove Foreign Office objections to this appalling idea.†   (source)
  • Annie was appalled when they first saw the place.†   (source)
  • Some slaughterhouses did a fine job; others were adequate; and a few were appalling.†   (source)
  • Part of their ease came from the fact that it was the boy who led—indisputably—and the girl who followed; but it also came, more profoundly, from the fact that the girl was, in no sense, appalled by the boy and did not for an instant hesitate to answer his rudest erotic quiver with her own.†   (source)
  • "I was appalled, because I had signed the export certificate," he said to me.†   (source)
  • They were appalled by what had happened and refused to be mollified as tradition demanded.†   (source)
  • I shook my head, appalled all over again by the blood drinking I'd witnessed between Neferet and Elliott.†   (source)
  • "Your introductions were not only appalling, they were disrespectful to me and the rest of your classmates," Peterson says after class as Brittany and I stand in front of her desk.†   (source)
  • She was already in appalling shape, pale and clammy, her pulse so thready that he believed anything he did would send her over the precipice.†   (source)
  • I say, appalled.†   (source)
  • And after dark, when the wind commences, that hateful prairie wind, one hears the most appalling moans.†   (source)
  • Inigo said, appalled.†   (source)
  • "Oh, now, John, I wouldn't threaten these gentlemen if I was you," Ned Tym said, appalled at what he was hearing.†   (source)
  • She treated him with a kindly, tolerant, yet overbearing familiarity that appalled.†   (source)
  • The other witches were appalled.†   (source)
  • Mark only realized that he'd stopped, appalled by what was happening around him, when Lana yelled at him to keep moving.†   (source)
  • August's accent is appalling, but Rosie—perhaps because August is usually repeating something I've just yelled—obeys without fail.†   (source)
  • But in plain truth His Majesty's forces, led by General Howe, had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in an appalling slaughter before gaining the high ground.†   (source)
  • She steadies me while giving Josh an appalled look.†   (source)
  • I was appalled at the thought of having to stay with them forever.†   (source)
  • cruel, though it may well be that they were too remote from the harsh realities of war to understand fully the appalling destructive power of air bombardment in the spring of 1945.†   (source)
  • Corporations are great and appalling things.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child.†   (source)
  • Now, as Elinor blew a kiss to the camera, and to him, he looked appalled.†   (source)
  • Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.†   (source)
  • They never cease to appall me.†   (source)
  • We rushed inside to find a scene of appalling filth and clutter, but there was no other place to go.†   (source)
  • They would be appalled.†   (source)
  • "Don't tell me you've been inside," said Max, appalled.†   (source)
  • Your eldest son will inherit the title Lord Slynt, and this appalling sigil of yours.†   (source)
  • Larry, my parents, my brother, my grandparents they all stood by me the entire way, though they were appalled and ashamed by my heretofore hidden criminal past.†   (source)
  • I'd bet that deep inside he's appalled at the notion of a white man taking the family money and leaving it to a black woman.†   (source)
  • Oswald hangs on every word, though he is appalled to learn that he missed Walker completely.†   (source)
  • And in the same way that the first attack finished off one period in our lives, so this appalling climax marked the end of another.†   (source)
  • Some part of me was appalled at myself, but what could I say?†   (source)
  • It smells appalling!†   (source)
  • My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.†   (source)
  • She'd refer to it now and again—joke about the secrets she had and the people she knew who would be appalled at what she'd written about them.†   (source)
  • The man hesitated, mouth agape, probably appalled that he'd so easily lost his weapon.†   (source)
  • Area after area on the northern plateau was declared "secure"—each area having been won at appalling cost.†   (source)
  • He was appalled to see eighty-two children, seventy-eight boys, and the four girls who had the pluck to join them, kneeling on the frosty ground, in the open.†   (source)
  • I step away, appalled at myself when I see the terror in her eyes.†   (source)
  • You have a chance to do the right thing, to make up for your parents' appalling crime.†   (source)
  • It has been called "this appalling English dialect....gutter slang...the dialect of the pimp, the idiom of the gang-banger and the street thug."†   (source)
  • Claire looked appalled.†   (source)
  • He was appalled; commands should be obeyed.†   (source)
  • However, keeping children up late at night-why, in New England such a thing was widely recognized as an appalling, outright cruelty.†   (source)
  • Appalled at the idea of pre-arranged marriages, Mandela and Justice escaped to Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she should be appalled that she'd given him exactly what he'd demanded: everything.†   (source)
  • Appalled silence reigned before Noah finally smiled.†   (source)
  • The girl whose name she didn't know took a step closer to Jess, peering closely at her face with an appalled expression.†   (source)
  • He still had bouts of insomnia and dreams that involved immobility and appalling quantities of blood.†   (source)
  • When, at age nineteen, I read his manifesto, even I was appalled.†   (source)
  • With the desperate shortage of motive power and the appalling shortage of fuel, it is criminal insanity to send an engine out on the road with sixty cars when it could pull a hundred and to take four days on a run which could be made in three.†   (source)
  • Just as Shasta was saying to himself, "We must be nearly at those sandhills by now," his heart leaped into his mouth because an appalling noise had suddenly risen up out of the darkness ahead; a long snarling roar, melancholy and utterly savage.†   (source)
  • To my eyes, she was clearly appalled by the way we lived.†   (source)
  • Your fellow countrymen have endured appalling suffering under the occupation.†   (source)
  • Her eyes met mine, contrite and appalled.†   (source)
  • "By the gods," Sven whispered, appalled.†   (source)
  • As a punishment for her appalling behavior she has promised that she will say it was her who put it in the washing machine.†   (source)
  • Previously, I would have found such a prospect appalling.†   (source)
  • I chose my second most appalling outfit for today's endeavors—more black on black, because that's really all I have anyway.†   (source)
  • Lalla's son Noel was most appalled by her.†   (source)
  • We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.†   (source)
  • The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it.†   (source)
  • I'm shocked and appalled that sonic other corporation didn't.†   (source)
  • Merrick was appalled by her.†   (source)
  • Perhaps," he went on, "you may even be the better off...You have many mouths to feed, and—" The thinner man raised his hand to check him, appalled by the words, yet scared by his own daring.†   (source)
  • Paul Rousseau was the only member of Alpha Group who had been allowed to read the shopkeeper's appalling file.†   (source)
  • While the Christian moralist in oneself was impelled to deplore the atrocious nature of the IRA's campaign of bombings and killings, and the "mere Irish" in oneself was appalled by the ruthlessness of the British Army on occasions like Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972, the minority citizen in oneself, the one who had grown up conscious that his group was distrusted and discriminated against in all kinds of official and unofficial ways, this citizen's perception was at one with the poetic truth of the situation in recognizing that if life in Northern Ireland were ever really to flourish, change had to take place.†   (source)
  • I feel like a spectator-an appalling business.†   (source)
  • No. I came here because I was and am appalled at the weakness and vulnerability of America.†   (source)
  • He crossed the street with his family, still moving slowly, breathing hard, appalled at his own daring.†   (source)
  • The thought of living on after Mary appalled him.†   (source)
  • Relieved and at the same time ....(he searchesfor the word) ....appalled.†   (source)
  • They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the bestplanned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.†   (source)
  • It was the middle of rush hour, Oedipa was appalled at the spectacle, having thought such traffic only possible in Los Angeles, places like that.†   (source)
  • With single-minded voracity they waded into their breakfast while Angeline watched them tolerantly, making no attempt to correct their appalling manners.†   (source)
  • It was appallingly little and flimsy—an open cockpit biplane with wooden struts, tied with piano wire.†   (source)
  • The completeness of this transformation appalled me.†   (source)
  • Her maladroit fumblings appalled her, and once she burst into tears when, trying to squeeze out some cosmetic lotion from an ordinary plastic tube, she applied such careless force that the stuff gushed out all over her and ruined a new dress.†   (source)
  • The future story writer in the child I was must have taken unconscious note and stored it away then: one secret is liable to be revealed in the place of another that is harder to tell, and the substitute secret when nakedly exposed is often the more appalling.†   (source)
  • "But the food situation in this place is appalling," Indar said.†   (source)
  • It must have been pretty wonderful to have lived in the years, say, between 1870 and 1914, when peace was the normal condition and people really were appalled at the idea of war, and believed there'd never be a big one.†   (source)
  • The idea of being manhandled by a naked black boy appalled her: struck at the root of one of the basic principles of her civilized code.†   (source)
  • (ALICE rises and MARGARET, appalled, turns to MORE) MORE (After a silence, rubs his nose) Well, that's all right†   (source)
  • They had been picked up in appalling numbers on the battlefield in front of the trenches half an hour ago during a short lull in the artillery fire.†   (source)
  • She was appalled.†   (source)
  • I'm just too tired and too appalled.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head was appalled.†   (source)
  • As Quizzard surged up from the chair with the girl in his arms, his blind eyes staring, Reich came to the appalled conclusion that the woman's fall was no accident; for Quizzard suddenly dropped in his tracks.†   (source)
  • He ate with distaste, making no effort to hide it, while Dick said nothing, and Mary made abrupt, unrelated remarks about the weather with that appalling coyness, shaking her earrings, writhing her thin shoulders, ogling Charlie with a conventional flirtatiousness.†   (source)
  • Faint almost to imperceptibility, but appalling, she suddenly heard the grinding of his teeth.   (source)
    appalling = shockingly horrible
  • There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look.   (source)
  • Now that it looked as though the threats were really to be fulfilled, Bernard was appalled.   (source)
    appalled = terrified
  • Our Ford–or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters–Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.   (source)
    appalling = shockingly horrible
  • He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories–back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality–but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.   (source)
    appalling = terrible
  • She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds.   (source)
    appalled = horrified
  • 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)
  • Aunt Petunia looked quite appalled with herself.†   (source)
  • She hadn't wanted to come to Maine and had been appalled when Vic had sprung the idea on her.†   (source)
  • What would Irina tell the Volturi that would result in Alice's appalling vision?†   (source)
  • He had already suggested he act as spy and report everything appalling that she said.†   (source)
  • "Damn it," he said, appalled, "that all happened thirty years ago!"†   (source)
  • History tells us of dreadful deeds and appalling barbarities during the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • But at the end of the page while reaching for another, I stopped, appalled.†   (source)
  • My father says it's simply appalling, to have that kind so close by.†   (source)
  • If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered.†   (source)
  • Appalled at himself, Louie went on bender after bender.†   (source)
  • The woman just stands there, totally, like, appalled.†   (source)
  • The face of Cornelius Fudge appeared upside down over Harry; it looked white, appalled.†   (source)
  • At dawn on the thirteenth, the documents were unsealed and their appalling contents revealed.†   (source)
  • She was appalled by what she'd done, but she couldn't decide how to react.†   (source)
  • "If you give up," said Piggy, in an appalled whisper, "what 'ud happen to me?"†   (source)
  • Happy as she was for her friend Jim Williams, she was nonetheless appalled.†   (source)
  • "You're saying one of us is the Gemini?" said Sticky, appalled.†   (source)
  • So it was quite an appalling scene her sister encountered in the morning.†   (source)
  • 'I just think she's an absolutely appalling teacher and a real old fraud.†   (source)
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