Definition of "appallingly" []

• In an appalling manner. (adverb)

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• "Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said party members were "furious" at what he described as "appallingly personal" jibes against the Deputy Prime Minister."
• "That sadness has turned to outrage at the speed with which some white gay activists began blaming African Americans -- sometimes in appallingly racist ways -- for the defeat of Proposition 8."
• "What the term suggests to me is essentially the modern cinematic equivalent of the kind of appallingly grisly public spectacle recounted at great length by Foucault in the opening pages of Discipline and Punish (the whole horrifying passage can be read here), framed and presented for the audience's enjoyment (or whatever) as spectacle."