appalling
Speech parts
1. appalling - Noun
2. appalling - Adjective
3. appalling - Verb
Derived from appal
5. appalling - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Appall
Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident.
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is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?
appalling conditions
According to those aboard, conditions were appalling; the crew was worked to the point of exhaustion, given meagre rations and forbidden to wash or change their clothes for several weeks.
Apart from the appalling looting of the Covid-19 funds, other government departments were not performing at all – at a time the most vulnerable needed them more than ever.
At the same time, it became clear that Feyenoord were in an appalling financial state despite earlier comments made by chairman Van den Herik who claimed that the club was financially healthy.
At the same time, humanitarians and reformers were campaigning in Britain against the appalling conditions in British prisons and hulks.