horribleness

Example Sentences

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“With the hysteria and the horribleness of the crime, the police wanted to put a nice little bow,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

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

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