horrible
adjective
causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful.
horribleness
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a word derived from
horrible.
Example Sentences
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Something can premiere and still be horrible; such language signals anticipation and bursting out onto the world without consideration of the goodness or horribleness of the thing in question.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
He added: "Leisure and tourism are the staples of the South West - and for them it's a perfect storm of horribleness."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022
The Baxter is a fatally flawed character and we laugh at their horribleness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
“The White Lotus” is so focused on the selfish usurpers and every absurd detail of their horribleness that it too ignores “the help” until they’re needed to juice up the plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
But after ’while you’re old enough and you got to own up to what you did, right or wrong, and couldn’t no one tell me that all this horribleness didn’t start with me.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
