Synonym: dismaying. Similar words: rolling, compelling, appealing, fulfilling, willingness, apparent, apparently, apparatus. Meaning: [-lɪŋ] n. an experience that appalls. adj. causing consternation.
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151. They lived in appalling conditions, lacking even the most primitive sanitation.
152. He watches the man closely to see how he reacts when he has to talk about this appalling figure.
153. The rail privatisation issue and the appalling loss of freight from the railway to road haulage is frightening in its implications.
154. It looks at some appalling racial attacks, including a skinhead raid last June on a Gypsy camp near Naples.
155. Its own conquests by land simply enlarged its territory; others' conquests by sea were appalling colonial adventures.
156. It's another blow for the club which has had an appalling run of injuries to key players.
157. George Bush's decision to trash the Kyoto global warming treaty is appalling.
158. No thrills, no frills Game presentation is appalling, with no intro screens and non end-of-level messages.
159. Given the current job losses in the country, will the Government reconsider their appalling position?
160. David had appalling exam results at school despite his obvious intelligence because of his inner battles.
161. People stop having children when the future they face is too appalling.
162. Nostradamus, astrologer supreme and ritual magician, set out his prophecies in coded four-line stanzas with sometimes appalling alternative rhymes.
163. Captain Bethune and several other officers were seriously wounded; while the carnage in the ranks was appalling.
164. At the very least I claim to be pitiful, grotesque, or appalling.
165. Refugees flowed in both directions, in appalling conditions, and there were innumerable killings.
166. To make a lawful speech unlawful because two men conceive it is to raise the law of conspiracy to appalling proportions.
167. Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission?
168. After two days of intensive defensive-oriented workouts, the Celtics came out Wednesday night and again played appalling defense.
169. The appalling scenes that we saw on television were brought home to us there.
170. But the human side of the story is appalling: destitution and chaos stare in at the gates of order and luxury.
171. After 10 minutes or so we both got the most appalling horrors.
172. The standard American diet is appalling in its lack of imagination.
173. But inside she was cringing at the memory of that appalling evening at the Grand Hotel.
174. At any one time there were three hundred people patiently waiting in the most appalling weather.
175. Or listening for days on end while she dithered about her appalling marriage: we'd be bored.
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176. Of more immediate concern to them was the appalling reality that the nature and tempo of operations engendered.
177. The weather was appalling, torrential rain, heavy winds and icy temperatures - ideal for sprinting!
178. Liz prided herself on her tolerance of Ivan's appalling behaviour.
179. They were truly appalling.
180. The hospital says it's sorry for the delays which health watchdogs say are appalling.
More similar words: rolling, compelling, appealing, fulfilling, willingness, apparent, apparently, apparatus, call in, pull in, roll in, all in all, fill in, fall into, fall in love, fall in love with, cling, ruling, ceiling, sibling, happening, jostling, sparkling, unsettling, counseling, boiling water, pal, pale, palm, flippant.