But it would have been appalling if the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't created a taboo around the use of nuclear weapons that endures unviolated to the present day.
"Given that this is a statute that appears to have been put in place to prevent people of different races from getting married in Massachusetts, it has a shameful history, and it is appalling if the state tries to use that today to prevent people from getting married in Massachusetts, said Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal, a national gay rights group.
The SNP and pro-EU Tory MPs Nicky Morgan and Anna Soubry were also considering tabling questions, while former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, now the party's Brexit spokesman, said it would be appalling if detailed terms of Brexit, including the UK's future relations with the single market, were not voted on by MPs.
It will be appalling if ministerial incompetence has left the government open to legal challenge for which taxpayers will pick up the bill.
Pat McFadden, a former business minister, said it would be appalling if it emerged it was possible to tackle the Libor scandal but not possible to do the same for other markets, including food, due to a lack of international powers.
His son James Murdoch, News Corp's deputy chief operating officer, told the inquiry it would be appalling if such actions took place.
They're too young to settle down so it would be appalling if they became a proper, happy couple.
The opinion is appalling if you care about the equality and autonomy of American women, but it's not stupid.
It is appalling, if unsurprising, to read the neoconservative cheerleader Oliver Kamm arguing in these pages that the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago saved lives and ended suffering.
