The prisoners were appallingly thin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an appalling accident; an appalling lack of manners. From Dictionary.com.
The protests of various lobby groups, which delayed the start of the minsterial conference, were handled "appallingly", Erwin said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Stranded passengers were handled "appallingly," U.K. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
As a consequence, passengers were treated "appallingly". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The Patients Association said people had been "appallingly" let down. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The Piquets' lawyer, Dominic Crossley, said both men had been treated "appallingly" by. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Damian McBride also said he was ashamed of the lurid e-mails he wrote from Number 10 and that he had let down his boss 'appallingly'. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The Patients Association has called for urgent reform of the way hospitals are regulated, saying patients had been "appallingly" let down. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
Toni's whole personality was so appallingly feeble. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Steph's dysfunctions are so appallingly transparent. From Wordnik.com. [Intangible Vectors of Influence (from "Emergency: Three Romances")] Reference
If he had cast them over the appallingly dark region of. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
And "the way of the ungodly" is an appallingly bad road. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
It was appallingly difficult to give adequate treatment. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Re-default rates on modified mortgages remain appallingly high. From Wordnik.com. [The Housing Mirage] Reference
He has treated me appallingly by refusing to do the corrective operation. From Wordnik.com. [Savage new report cuts into cosmetic surgery clinics in Britain] Reference
In many instances the positions of the bodies were appallingly life-like. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
His country has suffered appallingly under Ottoman rule, and a pure-blooded. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
However, the opposition party is presenting an appallingly flaccid opposition. From Wordnik.com. [A LETHAL IDEA STILL LIVES] Reference
I longed to hear her sneeze; it must have been something quite appallingly grand. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
A few shells shot appallingly close to the bugler perched on the summit of the headgear. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Herculaneum were so appallingly paltry, as to discourage the pursuit of the lost classics. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Albert Einstein: "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.". From Wordnik.com. [Quotables: Channel 4's latest web project reinvents quotations for the Twitter age] Reference
There was nothing like a scientific system of ventilation and fatalities were appallingly frequent. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
At this juncture, a helpful waiter appeared at Maya's elbow and asked in an appallingly distinct tone. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels of the Red Planet] Reference
Considering the extremely meagre population of the early colonies, they were appallingly busy in evil. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Both assume millions of Americans will join consumer cartels like HMOs, and both are appallingly vague. From Wordnik.com. [Rx For Health Care] Reference
The illiteracy of the state is appallingly high and the illiterate is universally an antiwomen suffragist. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference
It was worth all the fatigue, cold, and bruises, for that appallingly illogical cloud cap took a new vagary. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
Nunn's mixed British-American company is superb, notably Corin Redgrave, appallingly American as the fiendish warden. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Menagerie] Reference
Hills we came suddenly upon a scene in its weirdness the most extraordinary and most appallingly grand I had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
Such a condition cannot be discovered before marriage -- The detestable crime of abortion is appallingly rife in our day. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"These kids are so appallingly ill-bred," Peter said of certain players, though there were few around this late in the tournament. From Wordnik.com. [Tennis Frat Boy for a Day] Reference
Promptly at the appointed time, the mines were fired and then ensued the most appallingly magnificent sight I have ever witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
This argument not only appallingly conflates all Muslims with Muslims who observe Sharia, but Muslims who observe Sharia with terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [Joshua Stanton: Islamophobia: Targeting an American Community] Reference
I had had a long march, it was an appallingly hot day, and she insisted on complete rest before we proceeded to the business of the Court. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
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