appalling
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Appalling headlines ricochet around the internet, stocks are skidding, wealth is eroding and the mood on Wall Street has rarely been gloomier.
From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2022
“Might be legal but certainly not moral. Appalling, really.”
From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2022
"Appalling, but not particularly surprising," says Safiah Ngah, as her immediate response to Sue Gray's report into allegations of gatherings at Downing Street during Covid restrictions.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2022
Appalling in its sloppy arguments and unrelenting and unwarranted negativity, its most infuriating flaw is its abysmal failure to get the most basic facts right.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2017
From age to age, throughout his lonely bounds The crash of ruin fitfully resounds; Appalling havoc! but serene his brow, Where daylight lingers on perpetual snow; Glitter the stars, and all is black below.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William
Vocabulary lists containing appalling
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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