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as in horrific
extremely disturbing or repellent
a horrible car accident that left eyewitnesses in a state of shock
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as in terrifying
causing fear
a horrible scream that made shivers go up and down our spines
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as in awful
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
I can never forgive her for the horrible way she treated me
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as in terrible
extremely unsatisfactory
I'm never going back to that restaurant; the service was horrible
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as in terror
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Recent Examples of horrible
Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024
The Dallas Cowboys are trying to stay afloat in the NFC Playoff picture at 3-4, but the NFL franchise got horrible injury news ahead of its Week 9 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons.
—Jesse Reed, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Carolina and New Orleans are horrible, so this is a two-horse race.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
Give Back To Maui After the horrible 2023 wildfires in Maui, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua reopened on October 8, 2023, and it’s been going strong and welcoming guests with open arms since then.
—Robin Raven, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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As electoral votes piled up for Donald Trump in the presidential election against Vice President Kamala Harris, Jon Stewart was just starting his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad election day special on The Daily Show.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024
The Dallas Cowboys are trying to stay afloat in the NFC Playoff picture at 3-4, but the NFL franchise got horrible injury news ahead of its Week 9 matchup against the Atlanta Falcons.
—Jesse Reed, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Carolina and New Orleans are horrible, so this is a two-horse race.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
Give Back To Maui After the horrible 2023 wildfires in Maui, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua reopened on October 8, 2023, and it’s been going strong and welcoming guests with open arms since then.
—Robin Raven, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Goldberg's words come over a year after The View began an unrelenting battle with gaseous entities, following a horrific water spillage (and mysterious fart noise of unknown origin) that plagued the Hot Topics table in January 2023.EW.com, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Travis and Jason are clearly very close with one another, and the fan that hurled such a horrific thing led to Jason reacting in a very angry manner.James Brizuela, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Learn more › While the roar of the mighty Tyrannosaurs rex in the Jurassic Park film franchise is pretty terrifying, it was actually created by Hollywood special effects wizards using the sounds of a baby elephant.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2024
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In this show, the most terrifying threat is not any singular person or group, but rather, the monsters inside us.Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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For the evening, the stews break out their coral dresses instead of blacks which are pretty awful.Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Jean Dujardin, the French actor who won an Academy Award for that awful silent-movie spoof The Artist, is almost unrecognizable in On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs).Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile Kelly Oubre, who was terrible with the Warriors, has found success with Philadelphia.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Elsbeth and Kaya are suspicious of Roselyn, even after Valentina’s quick assessment — supported by the medical examiner — that Claude’s death was a terrible accident.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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In four days, the coin will land, and half of the country will either exhale with relief or shudder in terror.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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At a rally in North Carolina last week, Trump mentioned Obama getting back on the trail and made his voice tremble in fake terror before dismissing him.Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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One popular, gruesome theory has it that a truck ran her over and then sped away, but what happened for sure, no one can tell.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Before his gruesome leg injury, the 24-year-old pass-rusher was on pace to secure an NFL Defensive Player of the Year trophy.Jesse Reed, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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For example, people often dodge screenings and diagnostic tests to avoid the frightening possibility of discovering cancer.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Demi Moore is sharing scary photos of a frightening side of her character in the body horror movie The Substance.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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George Kittle On the ugly game: Being able to deal with all of that and still come out with a win.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Poor Sue, who wins the challenge and has to wear that ugly bat signal around her neck.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Horrible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrible. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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