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The phrase "appalling move" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an action or decision that is shocking, unacceptable, or extremely bad in nature. Example: "The company's decision to lay off employees without notice was an appalling move that left many in shock."
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The Socialists argued that, 100 years after France was the first country that saw a chemical attack on its soil during the first world war, Paris had a historical duty to stop the "appalling move backwards" of chemical weapons being used today.
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It was an astonishing-and to many appalling-move, and it almost certainly will put an end to the new President's honey moon with Congress.
You know when you wake up, on a Sunday morning-cum-afternoon, and you know you just know that you made some embarrassing mistakes last night; you got too drunk, you did an appalling dance move in front of all your friends, you really publicly got off with someone, you sent those texts, oh God.
Bogumit Polachowski Greasby, Wirral The appalling plan to move 400,000 photographs to London from the NMM in Bradford sums up your excellent editorial (4 February).
The New Zealand minister of internal affairs, Peter Dunne, described the move as "appalling treatment".
Kuchumov had faced an appalling dilemma: "A trial moving of one of the panels has resulted in disaster.
Upmarket New York, which lauds Pulitzer prizes without remembering what the appalling Joseph Pulitzer was like, moved through various stages of nose-wrinkling dismay.
They moved with appalling frequency, always on the lookout for cut-rate or even free housing (the latter supplied by Wahl's family, with dwindling yet remarkable patience).
One particular Obama move he found appalling above all the rest.
The company's move is so appalling that you have to wonder whether there is more to the story.
A UK Government spokesman said: "We are currently examining this latest Daesh [Isis] propaganda video - another desperate move from an appalling terrorist group that is clearly in decline".
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