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as in horrible
causing fear
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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as in awful
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
a horrendous breach of good manners that should not escape censure
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as in horrific
extremely disturbing or repellent
emergency room personnel did not flinch even from the most horrendous injuries
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Recent Examples of horrendous
The horrendous Pacific Palisades fire annihilated huge swaths of the surrounding community and burned some of the Getty Villa’s grounds.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
The Clone Wars were this horrendous affair and Palpatine has put an end to it.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The lefty is coming off a horrendous year and Arizona would likely eat a large chunk of his contract to move him.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
My fellow single friend and I had spent the evening sipping wine and sharing increasingly horrendous online dating stories.
—Eva Koelzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
The Clone Wars were this horrendous affair and Palpatine has put an end to it.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
The lefty is coming off a horrendous year and Arizona would likely eat a large chunk of his contract to move him.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
My fellow single friend and I had spent the evening sipping wine and sharing increasingly horrendous online dating stories.
—Eva Koelzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrendous
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Some compare Sanders to Geno Smith — not flattering, but not horrible.—
Troy Renck,
Orlando Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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Everybody's going to be thrown, according to , into all these horrible situations.—
Hugh Cameron,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Fairfield County corridor is infamously awful, according to Potamkin Hyundai, with the Stamford stretch recently ranking as the number one busiest highway segment in the entire country.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2025
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But Ovechkin has been scoring 50 goals (a season) for an awful long time now.—
Homero De la Fuente,
CNN,
9 Mar. 2025
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The horrific apparent overdose came a day after a drug-dealing operator of a Bronx day care was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the death of a toddler exposed to fentanyl and the overdoses of three other children who survived.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
5 Mar. 2025
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Read Next California Toddler disfigured by burns in ‘horrific’ child endangerment case in CA.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2025
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The harsh environment, mostly devoid of human presence, feels almost terrifying in its vastness—but that feeling quickly gives way to awe and excitement.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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The terrifying incident unfolded Saturday morning, shortly after the Boeing 767 lifted off from its runway at Newark Liberty Airport.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Mar. 2025
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).—
Evan Sidery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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On September 2, 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in American history, a group of white miners killed at least twenty-eight Chinese residents in Rock Springs and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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This is the gruesome gulf between the parties in the Oval Office.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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Since then, however, Wells Fargo has pulled back roughly 18%, as of the close on Monday, which continued a terrible recent stretch for the overall market due to economic uncertainty stemming from concern about the impact of President Donald Trump ‘s tariffs.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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The New York Yankees received terrible news on Monday regarding Gerrit Cole's injury.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Selena Gomez has called out 'disgusting' weight shame As a former child star who grew up in the public eye, Gomez has long been subjected to conversations surrounding her weight.—
Jay Stahl,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The desire to avoid portraying her character’s actions as simply disgusting led de Van to play the lead role herself, in spite of the challenges that created for her as a first-time feature director.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Horrendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrendous. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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