Sentence examples for be less appalling from inspiring English sources

If laicization were a cure for pedophilia, spending $10,000 or $20,000 dollars to expedite the defrocking of a predator priest might make sense -- and be less appalling.

Queries such as these are dangerous; they offer an opportunity to write off appalling acts simply because they're less appalling than others.

Or maybe — and this is the theory I prefer, if only because the implications are less appalling — today's tear-jerkers are a new example of an age-old fascination with other people's problems, the modern equivalent of going to the opera to see a tortured Tosca leap to her death from the Castel Sant' Angelo.

However, the situation was less appalling for workers, since capital and labor were shifting to the secondary sector.

Or when Bohemian FC midfielder Gareth McGlynn was suspended for placing a five-bagger of bets on LOI matches in 2010, a betting scandal that was less appalling than it was sad he lost all of his bets.

The combined deficit of the state and central governments is appalling, but is expected to be less so than before.

Libor-fixing, PPI mis-selling, aiding and abetting tax evasion – the sector's list of misdemeanours is no less appalling for being oft-rehearsed.

My obsession with my iPhone would be somewhat less appalling if I didn't have a one-and-a-half year old who has been known to dunk his head in a bowl of yogurt while my face is buried in online articles, or snatch the phone away from me and say, "The End".

But these are short-lived: Trump still seems likeliest to win in New Hampshire next week – not that an election season dominated by Cruz would be much less appalling anyway.

The other two cases are no less appalling for lacking any element of religious or cultural offense.

It is appalling that drivers are less likely to yield when speeding, even in busy retail sections.