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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
appal /əˈpɔːl/ (US appall)

▶verb (appals, appalling, appalled)

1 greatly dismay or horrify.

2 (as adj. appalling) very bad or displeasing.

– derivatives
appallingly adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr. apalir ‘grow pale’.

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"historical record is nothing if not appalling"
a week's worth of appalling food
called up such appalling possibilities
disgusting/appalling/gruesome/ghastly [excessive thinness]
to dramatize an/the/this appalling condition.

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