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
Yet the President had not told the people he was aghast at this "barbarous" recourse to "frightfulness" until April 21.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
To add to the frightfulness of the eruption and the grandeur of the spectacle, one hundred guns instantly belched forth their thunders.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
