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US
/əˈpɔɫɪŋɫi/
]
[ UK /ɐpˈɔːlɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /ɐpˈɔːlɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
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to an appalling extent
the prisoners were appallingly thin
How To Use appallingly In A Sentence
- The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
- In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
- He really does have an appallingly low boredom threshold. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a patchwork of Clan, tribal loyalties, religious zealotry, appallingly poor, indemicly corrupt politician, power mad factionally torn military and a corporate sector which is (not surprisingy greedy and in for their chop) all of which are in varing degrees fractiousness and discontentedness. Pakistan "Emergency" Ban of Constitution, Independent Media-- A Media Emergency In USA Too
- In my experience such lightbulbs give out appallingly dim light which makes prolonged reading and close craftwork impossible. Times, Sunday Times
- They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
- I told him about the cassowary, a flightless, man-size bird that lives in the rainforests and has a razor claw on each foot with which it can slice you open in a deft and appallingly expansive manner.
- Independent Complaints Directorate and the SA Human Rights Commission, saying the chairman of their youth wing was treated "appallingly" by police. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The songs are appallingly uneventful, despite the rock-steady delivery of the band.
- But if that biography confined itself to her activities in the world, it would be appallingly repetitious and boring.