appallingly

comparative more appallingly · superlative most appallingly

1. In an appalling manner.

   She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.

   1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less

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   [A] very hot-cross bun voice bellowed from the shop, ‘Wash it out this that, you trollop,’ and a pail of slops shot out of the shop all over the little woman, who squalled appallingly.

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 55