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Recent Examples of appallingly
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appallingly
Adverb
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Price hikes are almost always unpopular, but unveiling them immediately after offending subscribers, employees, politicians, and celebrities is tone-deaf and horribly timed.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Perry shared this behind-the-scenes pic of him and former onscreen wife Courteney Cox hanging out while filming an episode of Perry's own comedy series Go On, in which the two go on (another) date that goes horribly wrong — Grand Theft Auto-style.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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That it’s bound to failure is what makes Don Quixote so terribly sad.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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As winning goes, Ralphie VII doesn’t have a terribly high bar to clear.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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On the flip side, 2-1 with a road win over the Chargers would look awfully good.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
21 Sep. 2025
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Quality like this is awfully hard to come by.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Perhaps most disturbingly, this technology threatens to exacerbate existing inequalities.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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But before the title even flashes on screen, we are granted the disturbingly detailed view of a bullet ripping through the face of a young boy.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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But the report shows that students across every political and ideological subgroup are alarmingly at ease with not only violence, but also the other, less extreme means of silencing opposing views.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
16 Sep. 2025
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Regardless of the potential upside, new product launches still experience alarmingly high rates of failure, with research suggesting failure rates closer to 40%.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Appallingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appallingly. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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