horrifying

/ ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪɪŋ /

adjective

1. causing feelings of horror in; awful; terrifying;

2. dismaying or greatly shocking; dreadful

Other Word Forms

• horrifyingly adverb

Example Sentences

Mr. Ambar does not spare us the horrifying details of each brutal mob act: As Lincoln described one scene, “dead men were seen literally dangling from the boughs of trees” like “Spanish moss.”

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The British learned this lesson with appeasement before World War II, and Israel relearned it at a horrifying cost on Oct.

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Summing up the case at the sentencing on Friday, the judge Mr Justice Griffiths said it was a "horrifying escalation of cruelty".

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And of all the destabilizing events in a pet’s life, it is having their owner disappear – due to a divorce, illness, natural disaster or other more horrifying fate.

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He still calls that tumultuous final day when Europe surged back from 10-6 down "horrifying".

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Related Words

• abhorrent 
• appalling 
• atrocious 
• awesome 
• awful 
• dangerous 
• dire 
• disastrous 
• disturbing 
• dreadful 
• frightful 
• ghastly 
• gruesome 
• harrowing 
• hideous 
• horrendous 
• horrid 
• serious 
• severe 
• shocking