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appalling

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ap·pall·ing  (-pôlng)
adj.
Causing consternation or dismay; frightful: appalling working conditions; appalling violence.

ap·palling·ly adv.

appalling
Adjective
1. causing dismay, horror, or revulsion
2. very bad
appallingly adv
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Noun1.appalling - an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"
experience - an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention"
Adj.1.appalling - causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

appalling
adjective 2. awful, terrible, tremendous, distressing, horrible, dreadful, horrendous, ghastly, godawful (slang)
Translations
Spanish appalling [əˈpɔːlɪŋ] adjespantoso (= awful); pésimo;
she's an appalling cook → es una cocinera malísima

French appalling [əˈpɔːlɪŋ] appal adjépouvantable; [stupidity] → consternant(e);
she's an appalling cook → c'est une très mauvaise cuisinière

German appalling [əˈpɔːlɪŋ] adjentsetzlich;
she's an appalling cook appal → sie kann überhaupt nicht kochen

Italian appalling [əˈpɔːlɪŋ] adjspaventoso/a;
she's an appalling cook → è un disastro come cuoca

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For a time, which seemed so long that the world grew gray with age and sin, and the haunted forest, having fulfilled its purpose in this monstrous culmination of its terrors, vanished out of his consciousness with all its sights and sounds, the apparition stood within a pace, regarding him with the mindless malevolence of a wild brute; then thrust its hands forward and sprang upon him with appalling ferocity
She would be "lost with all hands," and in that distinction there is a subtle difference - less horror and a less appalling darkness.
Vaguely, too, I remember, my father carried me in his arms to the trees on the edge of the field, while all the world reeled and swung about me, and I was aware of deadly nausea mingled with an appalling conviction of sin.
 
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