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horrendous

Horrendous is something that is large and so dreadful or horrible that it makes you tremble with fear. She heard a horrendous noise as the truck smashed into the wall. There was horrendous carnage at the scene of the plane crash. My journey to work this morning was horrendous!

horrendous

(= awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, terrible) causing fear or dread or terror the awful war an awful risk dire news a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked the dread presence of the headmaster polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was a dreadful storm a fearful howling horrendous explosions shook the city a terrible curse

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Simple sentences

It was horrendous.
It was a horrendous experience.

Movie subtitles

It's just so appallingly horrendous.
In a few days' time, that awful billboard, that horrendous enchantress, as in the days of the golden calf, has gathered around itself all the corruption of this city.
There is one far more horrendous than either of those.
Such an horrendous discovery!
Cases like that commit the most horrendous crimes for what appear to be the most insignificant reasons.
It's a sweet feeling that brings me joy. It takes me away from the horrendous glare of my daughter Evelyn.
Some of us have a theory that he might have been a president of the United States, but that he did something horrendous, so that all records, everything, was wiped out about him.
As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward. escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless. when suddenly the animator suffered a fatal heart attack.
That's horrendous!
The occasion was thruly horrendous. 3 days in Monte Carlo, to see Semenzara play.
The horrendous hyperbole of Grub Street, Casey.
An horrendous monster casts a dreadful pall of fear over a once happy land.
It was horrendous, the gearbox didn't work.
Concern yourselves with armies and wizards phantoms and emperors cloud-capped towers and bloodied fields of horrendous carnage.
What a horrendous trip!
Because of the kids we don't have, we're facing a horrendous nightmare!
How horrendous!
This horrendous news circulates around the village.
Some of us have a theory that he might have been a president of the United States, but that he did something horrendous, so that all records, everything was wiped out about him.
As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward, escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless.
Well, I'm looking at three of the gowns now and I can see horrendous mistakes.
Unless something horrendous is on that tape, we're gonna put that tape on the air.
It would take something horrendous to keep him from giving his report.
You see, 20 years ago. no one was expected to live in jail for 20 years. Filthy, horrendous conditions that existed then, and, indeed. still exist today.
You're making a horrendous mistake. I'm not a spy.
You get your ass to the most expensive bridal boutique you can find right now, pull out your credit card and get something in a size six that is beautiful and magical and will make everyone cry, you horrendous excuse for a person!
Do something! It's getting horrendous!
Just a horrendous character.
All sectors of society are outraged by this horrendous crime.
I find it horrendous.
Better than I've ever felt before. yet. he's quite horrendous. the Teacher, I mean.
And can't you see, this dress is really horrendous.
I'm capable of doing horrendous things!
To stay awake, he was seated against a wall of ice which gave him horrendous frostbite in his side.
It was horrendous.

News and current affairs

With our knowledge, science, and technology, the horrendous living conditions of the world's poorest people could be dramatically improved.
It was a horrendous shock, imposing great social costs, but it changed Russia's mentality, not only the exchange rate.
The problem is whether a good cause justifies using horrendous means.
Fatwas promulgated after Bin Baz are almost always horrendous in their intolerance and virulence, and certainly appear backward and anti-modernist.
A defender of suppression of Nazi ideas might argue that have already been tried, and have failed - in the most horrendous manner imaginable - to produce a better society.
Until not long ago, there was a strong left-wing current in education and some of the media that used Japan's horrendous wartime record as an argument against any kind of revisionism.
Constitutional law was defied and horrendous communal violence against religious minorities became frequent.
The mountains of evidence in its records make the horrendous crimes committed in the wars in ex-Yugoslavia comparable in the extent of their documentation to those by the Nazis.
It is nonetheless a horrendous total - similar in magnitude to the Nazis' killings (which took place during a shorter period).
In the early 1990's, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced a horrendous real-estate, banking, and currency crisis.
China and India, too, will face growing water crises in the coming years, with potentially horrendous consequences.
Similarly, health conditions are horrendous, but could be improved dramatically just with immunization, de-worming, safe water, antibiotics, and anti-malaria bed nets.
Even the questionable deal Uribe cut with the right-wing paramilitary AUC groups, pardoning up to 30,000 of their members for often horrendous crimes in exchange for their disarmament, appeared successful.
The US, also victim of a horrendous attack, feels drawn to the world but not to promote a similar model of cooperation.
The respite from the horrendous spate of suicide bombings since the new government assumed power is similarly heartening.
Yet even he did not touch the economy's gargantuan quasi-governmental sector - the source of the most horrendous waste and misspending.
Given the West's record of horrendous warfare and often brutal imperialism, this seems unlikely.
Taylor is now being tried in The Hague, and, after two decades of horrendous conflict, Liberia is at peace and rebuilding under a democratic government.
It is true that two horrendous world wars have taken the glamour out of war for most Europeans (Britain is a slightly different story).

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