It is missing a verb and does not make sense as a standalone phrase
However, you can use the adjective "appalling" with another word to form a complete phrase that is grammatically correct, such as "appalling without explanation." This phrase means something is shocking or horrifying in its lack of an explanation. Example: The sudden price increase was appalling without explanation.
But since Port is known to have offered payment for his first victim to spend the night with him, I can't help thinking that the police might have arrested him more quickly if people had felt able to complain to them before Port's behaviour became quite so appalling, without perhaps fearing that they would be harshly judged or, perhaps, prosecuted themselves.
Then there are those objects and phenomena that offend or disturb us profoundly because their sensuous appearance is hideous, monstrous, or appalling, without any overall redeeming value such as an artistic message.
"The fact that the speaker of the House did nothing when there were multiple attempts to intervene [with Foley] is in itself appalling, without any future allegations about Hastert's own past behavior," said Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale".
But in practice, children's rights groups said, they were being dumped, sometimes in appalling conditions, without relatives or anybody waiting at the border.
It also found that some puppies were forced to make journeys of more than 1,000 miles in appalling conditions without suitable treatments or vaccinations, increasing the risk that they could spread diseases such as rabies in the UK.
But not in New Labour's Britain, where we have an unelected children's minister such as the baroness who is prepared to preside over this appalling injustice without the slightest prick to her conscience.
The story of Mahmoud Abu Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, shows that even after the release of Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, many Egyptian freelancers and local journalists remain incarcerated in appalling conditions without the prospect of a fair trial.
They wrote: "Lower-class, unemployed white people lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale; in the midst of the depression, people in Brixton went out, leaving their grocery money in a bag at the front door, and expecting to see groceries there when they got back.
Updated at 2.46pm BST 12.17pm BST 10 things we've learnt from the Lib Dem conference I would hate to think that I've been here since Saturday, braved the rain and had to drink the Brighton centre's appalling coffee without having learnt something of significance about the Liberal Democrats.
"Many women lose access to essential reproductive health services and give birth in appalling conditions without access to safe delivery services and lifesaving care".
