Definitions for appalling
əˈpɔ lɪŋap·palling

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1. appallingadjective

   an experience that appalls

   "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"

2. appalling, dismayingadjective

   causing consternation

   "appalling conditions"

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1. appallingadjective

   Horrifying and astonishing.

   That was an appalling waste of money.

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1. appalling

   Appalling is an adjective that describes something causing shock, dismay, or horror. It's often used to refer to situations, behaviors, or conditions that are extremely bad, unpleasant or inferior.

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1. Appalling

   of Appall

2. Appallingadjective

   such as to appall; as, an appalling accident

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'appalling' in Adjectives Frequency: #1008

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of appalling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of appalling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of appalling in a Sentence

1. Mark Esper:

   This afternoons assault on the US Capitol was appalling and un-American, this is not how citizens of the worlds greatest and oldest democracy behave. The perpetrators who committed this illegal act were inspired by partisan misinformation and patently false claims about the election.This must end now for the good of the republic.

2. Teresa Sullivan:

   The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to re-examine our responsibility to this community.

3. Mitt Romney:

   When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated, by all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

4. George Conway:

   The Lincoln Project's terrible and awful and appalling and unfathomable, I, I didn't know John Kasich very well. I frankly only spoke to John Kasich a couple of times on the phone early on in The Lincoln Project. It's almost, I don't even know what to say. It's just terrible, it leaves me speechless, frankly.

5. Steve Scalise:

   These comments are appalling, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has no tolerance for them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=appalling
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appalling
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appalling