Appalling [adjective]

He wished her mother had not been quite such an appalling person, fat and painted.

Few persons can attain to adult life without being profoundly impressed by the appalling inequalities of our human lot.

It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.

A few minutes later an appalling explosion shook every house in Lucknow.

How could he leave her with the owner of those hands, the wearer of those appalling yellow cotton gloves!

The awful silence and almost palpable darkness of these deepest dungeons is absolutely appalling.

His speed of descent built up to appalling figures until his helicopters found air to take their thrust.

The lights suddenly went dim, and a bull-throated roar sounded from somewhere, an appalling sound of raw power.

Mr. Gunning looked about him, still alarmed, still surrounded as in his dream, by appalling presences.

It was the most appalling sensation I'd ever known—worse than an earthquake, which I've also experienced.