appallingly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English appalling
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English appallingly

    From appalling + -ly.

    Pronunciation

    • (US) IPA(key): /ʌˈpɑlɪŋli/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)

    Adverb

    appallingly (comparative more appallingly, superlative most appallingly)

    1. In an appalling manner.
      • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 55:
        [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.
      • 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less:
        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'.

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