All 9 Uses of
appalling
in
Arrowsmith
- Barney poured, from a bottle plainly marked Ginger Ale, two glasses of powerful and appalling raw whiskey, and Clif and Martin took them to the table in the corner.†
Chpt 6appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Certainly Leora had appallingly never heard of these great ones, nor even attended the concerts, the lectures, the recitals at which Madeline apparently spent all her glittering evenings.†
Chpt 6appallingly = in a manner that shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
- Angus seemed appallingly at home, and he waltzed off with the prettiest girl, sliding, swinging, deft.†
Chpt 7 *
- The fireman was stoking, and even in the thin clearness of coming dawn the glow from the fire-box was appalling on the under side of the rolling smoke.†
Chpt 15appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Martin was honest and appallingly earnest, but if he had the innocence of the dove he lacked the wisdom of the serpent.†
Chpt 18appallingly = in a manner that shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
- Martin was edified by an item which showed that among all families divorced in Ontario, Tennessee, and Southern Wyoming in 1912, the appalling number of fifty-three per cent of the husbands drank at least one glass of whisky daily.†
Chpt 19appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Then he had it: Watters, the appalling normal medical student whose faith in the good, the true, the profitable, had annoyed him at Digamma Pi.†
Chpt 20
- His underlings knew that Dr. Duer would not fail to arrive precisely on time, precisely well dressed, absolutely sober, very cool, and appallingly unpleasant to any nurse who made a mistake or looked for a smile.†
Chpt 25appallingly = in a manner that shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
- He was stopped by a Jamaican man-servant of appalling courtesy.†
Chpt 34appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible