[ adv ] to an appalling extent <adv.all> the prisoners were appallingly thin
Appalling \Ap*pall"ing\, a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- {Ap*pall"ing*ly}, adv.
It was an appallingly difficult job.' The oil wells were ablaze, belching out dense black smoke, fumes and hot oil droplets.
Congressional oversight was as much an oxymoron then as now and, 40 years later, the consequences of that decision, made in the secrecy engendered by the mood of the Manhattan Project, are appallingly apparent.
THE FRENCH are appallingly snooty about everything to do with eating, from the choice of restaurant, to the meal itself.
Now a voice teacher who sang with Big Noise on his variety show in the 1950s, Ms. Emmons had access not only to vast archives of Melchioriana (including diaries and scrapbooks), but to the two appallingly mistreated children from his first marriage.
'A judge will never say the husband has behaved appallingly so he has to find the money.' Costs run up by each side will deplete the amount available to be split. Barford recalls a case where one party was convinced that the other was extremely wealthy.
But Britain's trunk roads and motorways were not built as toll roads, so a toll system could prove appallingly expensive to instal and might also be costly to run.