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Definition
shockingly terrible or horrible
- Seeing that her thoughts were elsewhere, Cecil bent towards Lucy and said: "To me it seemed perfectly appalling, disastrous, portentous."Chapter 9 (6% in)
- Cecil, who had his full share of mediaeval mischievousness, replied that the physique of the lower middle classes was improving at a most appalling rate.Chapter 9 (55% in)
- The appalling people they have sent me!Chapter 9 (58% in)
- "I say, what about this bathe?" murmured Freddy, appalled at the mass of philosophy that was approaching him.Chapter 12 (27% in)
- It was Miss Bartlett who returned now, and with appalling vividness.Chapter 13 (71% in)
- The darkness last night was appalling.Chapter 18 (66% in)
There are no more uses of "appalling" in A Room With A View.
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