APPALLINGLY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

appallingly

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Definition of appallingly

as in horribly

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Recent Examples of appallingly West Ham are relegated, sorry Spurs survive The odds were stacked against West Ham United beating relegation yesterday and even in a year when Tottenham Hotspur plumbed appallingly abject depths, few clubs deserved it more. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026 With respect to humor’s inherent subjectivity, the appallingly ugly aesthetics of the AI overwhelm any possible comedic sensibility on display. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 15 May 2026 Democrats appallingly gamed the system early on by inserting their activists (rather than fair-minded community members) on the map-drawing panels. — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025 But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025 This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025 The novel was adapted into a successful play, and Carson followed it with two sequels, before her death from cancer, in 1941, by which time the prescience of her fiction had become appallingly evident. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2025

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Past air shows have gone horribly wrong when military aviators have cut their margins too close.

— Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
But then a banquet meal goes horribly awry, and pirates sink the ship.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 July 2026

Definition of horribly

Adverb

Given that humans at OpenAI had decided to turn off some safeguards for the test, some have argued the outcome should not have been terribly surprising.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
In a world that had long equated labor with the physical act of making things, such a shift was seen as not terribly manly, and potentially dangerous to society as a whole.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Definition of terribly

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Winning the European title in two years’ time would go an awfully long way to doing that, and the FA’s job here is to make decisions based on what is going to get the best out of the players, not how the public feels.

— The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Right now, though, ripe, honey-tart peaches with soft goat cheese would be awfully good with the last sips of a Chenin Blanc.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of awfully

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Part slasher parody, part meta commentary on the structure of horror movies, and fully riotous, Behind the Mask is a dreadfully under-appreciated contribution to the subgenre that would have made for a terrific franchise.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
Especially early in its career, Hum was dreadfully misclassified as just another soft-to-loud/Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana wannabe, and remained criminally under-appreciated for its heavy/stoner-friendly Midwestern shoegaze vibes long after its breakup.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 16 May 2026

Definition of dreadfully

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Too little regulation could allow the unleashing of devilish AI that might wipe us out or at least be horrendously destructive.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Of all the horrendous nonsense we were forced to entertain this spring, none of it was more horrendously nonsensical than the idea of people vibe-coding their own cybersecurity solutions.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 18 May 2026

Definition of horrendously

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Antonelli’s main title rival this season, George Russell, was down in fifth after another disturbingly familiar race for him, too.

— Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 7 July 2026
Perhaps most disturbingly, there’s a short sequence of a massive pink bunny vaporizing people with its laser eyes.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of disturbingly

Adverb

In a first for France, the blaze alarmingly developed into a self-feeding firestorm on several occasions, most recently on Saturday night, generating lightning bolts that can start new flare-ups, authorities said.

— Mark Carlson, Fortune, 27 July 2026
In a first for France, the blaze alarmingly developed into a self-feeding firestorm on several occasions, most recently on Saturday night, generating lightning bolts with the potential to start new fires, authorities said.

— Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

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