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appallingly

[ US /əˈpɔɫɪŋɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈɔːlɪŋli/ ]
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  1. to an appalling extent
    the prisoners were appallingly thin

How To Use appallingly In A Sentence

  • Leeds might be an excellent team, but today they played appallingly.
  • But these non-newsworthy-factoids have spawned appallingly simple-minded reflections.
  • There his mechanical and appallingly ill-informed Bach playing was exceeded only by the sugary sentimentality of his own, nouveau impressionist music.
  • Agathocles, we are told, always lived a dissolute life and was known for appallingly cruel and inhumane conduct.
  • Both nurses and doctors are working under intense pressure in a service that has been appallingly under-resourced and badly managed.
  • While in Cologne yesterday I decided to chase up a particular book, discovered that a favourite bookshop (armchairs and reading desks!) had been ingested into an appallingly sterile chain, and on a whim - rather tiredly at this point - went up into the tiny Käthe Kollwitz Museum, which shares the same building and which I've never managed to visit despite good intentions. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Compare that to my current issue uniform cap, which gets hot and uncomfortable and stinks appallingly unless it is cleaned and deodorised twice weekly.
  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein 
  • But these non-newsworthy-factoids have spawned appallingly simple-minded reflections.
  • It seems quite appallingly insensitive. Times, Sunday Times
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