Definition of Appalling

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Definition of Appalling
	Appalling of Appall Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. Related Definitions: Accident, An, Appall, Appalling, As, Of, Such, To

Appalling Quotations

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Arthur Miller

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth II

Appalling Translations

appalling in German is entsetzlich
appalling in Italian is tremendo, atroce
appalling in Spanish is espantoso, horrible
appalling in Swedish is ohygglig

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