appallingly
Example Sentences
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"Social media is appallingly toxic," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026
His colleagues are given duties at which they either excel or fail appallingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
For all of the time, effort and money, not to mention emotional distress, the results have been appallingly minimal.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
This pathway is now so well trodden as to have become a trope: the male feminist who deeply, appallingly wasn’t.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2025
It was appallingly little and flimsy—an open cockpit biplane with wooden struts, tied with piano wire.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
