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horrific

(= hideous, outrageous) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror subjected to outrageous cruelty a hideous pattern of injustice horrific conditions in the mining industry (= awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, horrendous, 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

Tom is tormented every night by horrific nightmares.
Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder -- a horrific massacre -- of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken hearts.
Uncover the horrific truth of this shocking story.

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It is incredibly horrific.
Then even the most horrific things become simply possible.
What seems so horrific, so incomprehensible from afar, simply happens.
Cold and black, it flows boiling in horrific torment.
Some of the things that he created were horrific.
It's too horrific even to think about.
It's complete satire. I disagree with anyone saying that it's influencing me to think that the Germans were less horrific and terrible as they were.
But when the person is continually confronted with this phobia. does it not become less horrific?
I do apologize. but what I'm about to tell you is something quite horrific.
And it is pretty horrific, but you can't change it.
You might think we had no thought at all as to how the young might be influenced by this kind of senseless, horrific violence.
Now, she's probably done the most horrific thing one person can do to another. not live up to your expectations.
On the contrary, it's been a horrific a. m.
It's quite horrific.
I've got an horrific headache.
It's horrific.
But when the person is continually confronted with his phobias, does it not become less horrific?
Tonight, the Ferriday clinic was the scene A series of horrific beheadings. Aura, Aura, come here.
On the contrary, it's been a horrific a.m.
These people have committed horrific crimes.
Police are mum on Hammond's specific ransom demands. obviously trying to negotiate a safe end. to this horrific saga for Miss Voss.
I've lived in this district for years Francis and haven't even registered a fraction of the horrific things you've found out so quickly. Great work.
Something horrific is happening.
Cut in on the middle of that horrific laugh.
Except that it was rather horrific to see your slimy serpent's tongue stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Thanks to its magnet he was able to overcome. centripetal force of horrific physical phenomenon and is free!
Horrific!
God is merciful, but horrific tests are waiting for you in hell.
So you've come to dissuade me from my horrific plan.
I'm in a horrific traffic jam.
Your brother lost a leg. You've had a pretty horrific life.

News and current affairs

Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies.
The shooting in Newtown was not only especially horrific and heartbreaking, but is also part of an increasingly common pattern - a specific kind of murder-suicide that has been carefully studied by psychologists and psychiatrists.
After a decade of horrific turmoil, Russia's economy is at last turning around.
Imagine, for example, the horrific situation consequences ofarising from an atomic explosion in some American city.
Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic congestion.
The horrific death toll among innocent theater-going Muscovites confirms Russia's struggle against Chechen rebels as a distinct and bloody front in the global war on terrorism.
Global warming is the most horrific challenge facing these regions, we are told.
The disastrous state of health care in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is raging, reflects decades of horrific civil war in both countries.
People everywhere are perplexed by the fact that horrific, systematic violations of human rights are treated differently in different countries.
Infrastructure is slowly improving, but roads, ports, water access, and the electricity grid are still horrific across large parts of the country.
Set aside the fact that Assad's forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific execution videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator's invisible massacres.
The costs humanity has paid in waiting for Kant's vision to near reality is horrific and was exacted in places other than the battlefield.
Despite the horrific violence of Islamist fanatics, it should not be forgotten that the mosque can also be a legitimate basis for resistance against the mostly secular dictatorships in the Middle East today.
The alternative - a Middle East in which several governments and, through them, militias and terrorist groups have access to nuclear weapons and materials - is too horrific to contemplate.
But laws and policies alone are not sufficient to protect women from horrific domestic abuse.
Many have been tortured, kept in horrific conditions, and denied medical care.
Just as the soft landing in early 2009 occurred in the aftermath of a horrific American-made crisis, this latest one followed the European sovereign-debt crisis.
Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
The conclusion PETA wants us to reach is that both the Holocaust and the mass confinement and slaughter of animals are horrific.
A horrific war resulted, in which the US defeated the secessionist southern Confederacy and imposed its vision of the union.
Apart from being a victory for international justice, the referral was also a promise to victims of the horrific crimes in Darfur that the perpetrators of the crimes against them would one day be held accountable.
Four years after the outbreak of the country's civil war, and despite the horrific humanitarian consequences of the fighting, international diplomacy to stop the violence has achieved nothing.
And it certainly can't be denied that it is hard to get people in New York, Maine, or Utah to spend enthusiastically on levees in New Orleans - at least until a horrific crisis occurs.
On the contrary, it was using the Holocaust - which we would all agree was utterly horrific - to suggest, as Isaac Bashevis Singer did, that there are parallels between the way the Nazis treated Jews and the way we treat animals.
WASHINGTON, DC - The year 2015 was difficult, punctuated by declining growth forecasts, horrific terror attacks, massive refugee flows, and serious political challenges, with populism on the rise in many countries.
The resulting carnage was deliberate, systematic, and spanned the country, with the most horrific and intense violence in Central and East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra.

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