Appalling
Appalling adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.
Bad is a synonym for appalling in horrifying topic. In some cases you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Appalling".
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- Just compare them here, it's absolutely appalling how bad these renditions are (they're the first ones shown in the comparisons).
Source: Horrible / Music -
The newest ships in Geary's fleet, the Adroit class, are also appalling underdesigned, having cut back on basically everything and with corners cut everywhere they could, including sensors so bad they need to mooch off of other ships' to function.
Source: Literature / The Lost Fleet - Judge Dredd: Chief Judge Thomas Silver ruthlessly crushed the Democracy movement, and made an appalling number of bad decisions that ended in Necropolis, a nightmare that cost the lives of 60 million people.
Source: Jerkass Woobie / Comic Books
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Bad or Appalling. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/appalling/bad.
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