appalling
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He also said then that the "appalling atrocity of slavery" stains Britain's history.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“The events that took place on our campus in 2024 were appalling then and remain so now,” the message said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Because a never-ending waterfall of legal claims and uncertainties for another four or five years would be absolutely appalling for the game."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Muhammed Butt, leader of Brent Council, said on Tuesday that the borough had been "shaken" by the "appalling and deeply tragic incident".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Our Ford—or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters—Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Vocabulary lists containing appalling
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Brave New World
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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