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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appallingly
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The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
18 June 2026
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Directed by Jean Rollin, the film centers on a first date that goes horribly wrong after the couple get lost in a sprawling cemetery.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2026
Adverb
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Excluding the special cases of meteor showers, a viewer on the ground will see only about five or so sporadic meteors per hour on average, which isn’t terribly many.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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For someone living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), that same silence can feel like evidence that something is terribly wrong.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
11 June 2026
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The United States' second World Cup match got off to an awfully familiar start.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
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Meanwhile, poor Sol is blithely ignoring Jen’s warning that Sincere seemed to switch up on Melanie awfully quick and that Sincere and Melanie are very in sync.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 June 2026
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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
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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
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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
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This way, the white people are exposed treating the Indigenous people horrendously — putting clothes on them, taking pictures without permission and treating them without respect.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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The rungs were slippery with rain, and the bridge wobbled sickeningly with each step.—
Robert Moor,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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The nu-metal tribute to the late right-wing activist is deeply catchy and sickeningly soppy, like Creed but a lot worse.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
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The road to that disturbingly phallic Jules Rimet trophy inevitably goes through Spain, France, England, Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, and a bunch of others.—
Filip Bondy,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026
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Henry is a very tough movie, built on disturbingly casual violence and a characterization of the title character that is uniquely bleak even by horror standards.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
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And, most alarmingly, Nick’s home doesn’t belong to him — and his wife and daughter aren’t there.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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The watchlist for the next Medallia is growing but not alarmingly long.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
18 June 2026
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“Appallingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appallingly. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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