The phrase "appalling state of affairs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is shocking, unacceptable, or extremely bad.
Example: "The appalling state of affairs in the healthcare system has prompted widespread protests and calls for reform."
Alternatives: "deplorable situation" or "shocking circumstances".
"That's an appalling state of affairs, to think you can make up for years' worth of work by putting on some gigs at some bowls clubs, nightclubs and barbecues".
The result has been to make a case that was surely so easily settleable almost impossible to compromise, and to impose on the high court a seven-day trial where the principal focus has been a bitter war of recrimination and denunciation about who was more at fault for this appalling state of affairs".
But I also think it important that Liberal America recognize its own contribution to this appalling state of affairs.
"This is unfortunately the appalling state of affairs of health care in the United States," said lead study author Dr. Renee Y . Hsia an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and a faculty member of the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies.
An appalling state of chaos?
The episode also demonstrates the appalling state of food safety and medical care in India.
These are the main factors behind the appalling state of the public coffers.
Councillor Gordon Hook, Lib-Dem spokesman on the environment, said: "It reflects the appalling state of our infrastructure.
One never even ventured away from our original neighborhood, now in an appalling state of decline.
Our review of the state-of-affairs of GM crops in Europe raises several fundamental issues.
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) — Millions of Americans are expressing their resentment and outrage at being put in the appalling position of siding with the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, a state of affairs that many are calling "intolerable".
