The phrase
"appalling performance" means that someone's performance was extremely bad or terrible.
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Labour's
appalling performance in Scotland and its inability to win more than a few marginal constituencies in England certainly needs explanation.
It's always good when the weekly narrative gets shaken up a little bit; after several weeks of truly
appalling performances from Ed Miliband, this week it was David Cameron's turn to put in a bit of a shocker.
The idea of cooperating with the SNP is dismissed in horror perhaps because Labour's
appalling performance in Scotland is seen as a result of their wicked machinations rather than the fact that Labour took the Scots for granted and failed to maintain its political profile in Scotland.
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our appalling performance in online retail to the way we gouge air travellers to our slacker attitude to baby - making, here's our list of 26 Canadian problems we need to confront now.
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our appalling performance in online retail to the way we gouge air travellers to our slacker attitude to baby - making, here's our list of 26 Canadian problems we need to confront now.
It was
an appalling performance from him that was capped with the stoppage time penalty award that won the game for Arsenal.
They turned in
an appalling performance and could have no complaints at Charlton's 2 - 0 win although a good number of the home fans missed the second goal having left as part of their protests against owner Roland Duchâtelet and chief exec Katrien Meire.
It's almost melancholy to watch him answer questions so well when he put in such
an appalling performance against Cameron and Clegg.
Chicago is an adaptation of a boring stage show with
an appalling performance by Queen Latifah but some fantastic choreography.
Submitted for your approval, the Rolf family: patriarch Ben (Reed), matriarch Marion (Black), irritating moppet David (Lee Montgomery, the obvious inspiration for Giovanni Frezza's
appalling performance in The House by the Cemetery), and Aunt Elizabeth (Davis).