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HORRIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provoking horror
Example:
an ugly wound
Synonyms:
atrocious; frightful; horrible; horrifying; ugly
Classified under:
Similar:
alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
Context examples:
I have only heard that it is to be more horrible than anything we have met with yet.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She had so much to do, that not even the horrible story of Mrs. Rushworth—now fixed to the last point of certainty could affect her as it had done before.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the second case—that of Mortimer Tregennis himself—you cannot have forgotten the horrible stuffiness of the room when we arrived, though the servant had thrown open the window.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Give one glance to my horrible life when you are gone.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Alas! it all went to confirm me in my first horrible suspicion, and to turn it into a certainty.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gazing over the edge, they looked down upon the horrible destruction which had been caused by the explosion.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What could he mean by such horrible indelicacy?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was breathing very loud and hard, but his eyes were closed and his face a horrible colour.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all too plain and horrible.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Only Spitz quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
