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verb

present participle of appall

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of appalling
Adjective
Bianco’s callousness is appalling. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025 But Kimmel and his ilk have never faced any consequences for their appalling misbehavior. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025 The result, as Guse pointed out, can be appalling. Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Anything different from that, now and in the past, is an appalling deviation from our core values. Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for appalling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appalling
Adjective
  • Evshine Memory Foam Slippers Listen, airplane floors are disgusting.
    Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Those bots have attracted lawsuits in horrific instances where users lost their grip on reality or took their own lives after interacting with them.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the base’s survivors have similarly described the singularly horrific nature of those 45 square miles in eastern Cuba.
    Miriam Pensack, The Dial, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The legacy trade preference program lapsed Tuesday without a renewal from Congress, shocking some and disappointing many, including lawmakers, importers and the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) exporters and heads of state who have been lobbying with mounting fervor for an extension.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Two months after catastrophic flooding killed 27 girls and counselors at Camp Mystic, the famed Texas camp plans to reopen – shocking some family members who still don’t know where their loved one is.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Once the selloff happened, the Twins were destined to be awful for the final two months, all but sealing Baldelli’s fate.
    Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the awful low; but Dunne’s story is ultimately one of redemption.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gein committed many gruesome crimes, but cannibalism was not one of them.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But one photo, far less gruesome, has been gnawing at me for weeks.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Television cameras captured the ensuing violence, horrifying much of the nation.
    Time, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The grisly murder stayed a local story until horrifying CCTV footage of the incident started making the rounds on social media last weekend.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Miami could choose to move on from the star receiver due to the horrible season-ending injury.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the game’s best teams spent the regular season alternating between brilliant and horrible.
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That's a terrible average to bet your life on.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • When his estranged daughter Sam tracks him down, in a last-ditch effort to dig her way out of serious trouble, Mickey must choose between rekindling his relationship with his daughter in the face of a terrible tragedy or pursuing a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Appalling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appalling. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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