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 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
Appalling dialogue and disordering storyline subplots are what keeps the high space opera of Star Wars rooted in our real world.
From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2015
Appalling dreams my soul affright; No rest vouchsafed me even there.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
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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