appalling
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called it "absolutely appalling".
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday denounced the "appalling treatment" of activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla as "unacceptable," in a call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, according to a statement.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
It will sit with the club for many years, and that is something they did not consider when they made their appalling decisions to put the club's reputation at risk.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
With a hole for a toilet, and dirty mattresses "full of insects", conditions were "appalling", she said.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
The attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the paroxysm were really appalling; I found my hands full when I got in, attending to some of the other patients who were frightened by him.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing appalling
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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