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appalling |
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appalling Adjective 1. causing dismay, horror, or revulsion 2. very bad appallingly adv
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appalling adjective 1. horrifying, shocking, terrible, alarming, frightening, scaring, awful, terrifying, horrible, grim, dreadful, intimidating, dismaying, horrific, fearful, daunting, dire, astounding, ghastly, hideous, shameful, harrowing, vile, unnerving, petrifying, horrid, unspeakable, frightful, nightmarish, abominable, disheartening, godawful (slang) hellacious U.S. (slang) << OPPOSITE reassuring adjective 2. awful, terrible, tremendous, distressing, horrible, dreadful, horrendous, ghastly, godawful (slang) Translationsshe's an appalling cook → es una cocinera malísima |
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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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