The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appalling \Ap*pall"ing\, a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an appalling manner.
WordNet
adv. to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly thin"
Usage examples of "appallingly".
She had appallingly violent impulses, and a complete lack of inhibitions when it came to following them.
I have to say, that what he had in mind was so appallingly nasty that even I was impressed.
The chorus of tiny cries that emanated from all the living things around the City had grown appallingly as he had drawn nearer.
Waiting every day from the ninth hour onward to see if her husband would come home for dinner, postponing the meal a few minutes only at a time, she drove her appallingly expensive cook mad, and all too often ended in sniffling her way through a solitary repast designed to revive the vanished appetite of a glutton emerging from a fasting cure.
He could see the last of the men clambering desperately toward the light, appallingly slow and clumsy in their suits.
Despite pretending to be a strict judge of propriety, his own behavior is appallingly lax.
Still appallingly unmilitary in the same blazing yellow sweater and the same shapeless fatigue pants, he was sitting at a table with our one remaining free companion, a plump redhead named Gina Lorth.
Their losses in battle were very small, their skill as bushmen and riflemen was beyond question, but their officers were untrained and unsupplied, even as ours are, and what arrangements they were able to make broke down appallingly.
New York was appallingly similar to the stonewalling encountered by FBI agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis.
The appallingly permed woman was waving to them across the room like some stupid bird with a broken wing.
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center towered above the highway on concrete buttresses, like a hydroelectric project accidently constructed in the wrong place, appallingly large.
Gazing down the hall, Bibbs saw heroic wreckage, seemingly Byzantine-- painted colossal fragments of the shattered torso, appallingly human.
The exercise was not felicitous because she began to think the c-v drive wouldn't work: it was an appallingly wasteful use of energy because the thrust had to be directed away from the goal to protect frail human bodies.
Despite the progress, this chapter will make it clear to you that, as a species, we are still appallingly conforming, passive, and obedient.
To do otherwise was deemed not only appallingly bad form but altogether impractical.