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"appalling" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often atrocious (9 letters).
Definitions
Shocking, very bad, or deeply upsetting.
Used in a sentence
“That was an appalling waste of money.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Awful”9 letters
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