frightfulness

Example Sentences

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The official German policy against civilians was described as Schrecklichkeit — frightfulness.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

But “Home” is a tonic for the mind, a lovely, lyrical distraction from the frightfulness of the news that had me looking at my surroundings more tenderly when I returned home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2020

I am not so foolish as to imagine the Government suddenly has lost its capacity for provoking popular resentment and then punishing with frightfulness.

From Time Magazine Archive

They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now like lightning she descends To the prison of the fiends, Hears the rattling of their chains, Feels their never ceasing pains— But, O never may she tell Half the frightfulness of hell.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip