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appallingly

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ap·pall·ing  (-pôlng)
adj.
Causing consternation or dismay; frightful: appalling working conditions; appalling violence.
ap·palling·ly adv.
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Adv.1.appallingly - to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly thin"
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appallingly [əˈpɔːlɪŋlɪ] ADV
1. (= badly) [sing, play] → pésimamente; [treat] → espantosamente mal, terriblemente mal; [suffer] → horriblemente, terriblemente
he had behaved appallingly → se había portado fatal or terriblemente mal
the situation has deteriorated appallingly → la situación ha empeorado de forma terrible
2. (= extremely) [difficult, selfish, ignorant] → terriblemente
the film was appallingly bad → la película era pésima
appallingly [əˈpɔːlɪŋli] adv
[behave, treat, handle] → de manière épouvantable
(= extremely) [low, bad] → terriblement
appallingly [əˈpɔːlɪŋlɪ] adv → spaventosamente; (behave) → molto male


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Only a very few days more - appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the "Overdue" heading shall appear again in the column of "Shipping Intelligence," but under the final declaration of "Missing.
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At length there came a flash so appallingly bright that in its glare Nature seemed to be standing still.
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I lowered Ajor at the end of my rifle and then slid over myself, and I am free to admit that my hair stood on end during the process, for the drop was considerable and the ledge appallingly narrow, with a frightful drop sheer below down to the rocks at the base of the cliff; but with Ajor there to catch and steady me, I made it all right, and then we set off down the trail toward the valley.
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