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Coverdale hung it up temporarily once before, after wrapping a Whitesnake world tour at the end of 1990, only to find himself “in an appalling, confused state across the board ... privately and professionally.”

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You betrayed the trust of a number of women, in the most appalling ways imaginable.

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Indeed, Larry Summers, former Clinton administration Treasury secretary, called it “appalling” in an email to Epstein.

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"That appalling headline, filled with lies and smears against Liverpool supporters, caused untold pain and trauma to the families of the 97 victims, survivors, and the wider Liverpool community," he wrote.

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It asks that schools cultivate a “vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus”—exactly what campus radicals have destroyed, reducing higher education to its present appalling condition.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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