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appalling
/əˈpɔlɪŋ/
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What does appalling mean?
verb
- present participle and gerund of appall
adjective
- Horrifying and astonishing.
- Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈpɔlɪŋ/
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How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and overmastered by Fate, had been borne in upon her with appalling force.
His gray, appalling face had attracted attention in the crowd, and men, slowing to his dreary pace, were walking with him.
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It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
She would be “lost with all hands,” and in that distinction there is a subtle difference—less horror and a less appalling darkness.
Feeling something crack beneath our feet, hearing an appalling hiss through the open trap-door, a hiss like the first sound of a rocket!