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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Other cases have shown the challenges that lie ahead after children are rescued from horribly abusive conditions.
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Every single one of the above contracts ended horribly, as they were either stretched, waived or dumped by the teams that signed them (Hill, Plumlee and Parsons were traded for each other three years later).
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But everyone on the Spurs shot terribly from deep in the clutch.
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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This could be described as assertive or confident clothing, all of the designer’s work achieves drama while in its exceptionally flattering fit, and which somehow still looks and feels awfully comfortable.
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That’s an awfully bold move from Motorola, considering the foldable is powered by the same chip as the 2024 and 2025 models and also reuses the design and screens from previous generations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The rungs were slippery with rain, and the bridge wobbled sickeningly with each step.
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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.
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Perhaps most disturbingly, there’s a short sequence of a massive pink bunny vaporizing people with its laser eyes.
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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.
Adverb
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Public trust in medicine and science is alarmingly low, a persistent issue highlighted at Aspen Ideas Health and by the Edelman Trust Barometer, now exacerbated by social media.
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And, most alarmingly, Nick’s home doesn’t belong to him — and his wife and daughter aren’t there.
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