horrifying
Britishadjective
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causing feelings of horror in; awful; terrifying;
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dismaying or greatly shocking; dreadful
Other Word Forms
- horrifyingly adverb
Example Sentences
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"I'm experienced enough with PAs to know that not all PAs are amazing drivers. And that's just a reality of life. I find the consequences horrifying."
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Dramatizing a real-life incident with a tense one-location framework, the movie deploys a horrifying audio recording and the well-meaning efforts of actors.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
And Ivana Bašić’s chilling sculptures deploy a long list of materials to create highly polished, alien-like creatures that could be the result of a horrifying futuristic experiment to create human-insect-robot hybrids.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
It’s horrifying that young girls paid the price for going to school in the middle of a war they did not start.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2026
“Are you telling me you don’t find the Post-its your son wrote completely horrifying? Because I do!”
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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