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horrifying

adjective as in chilling

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He described Plumb's plans as "horrifying", adding: "They are distressing even for seasoned professionals to read."

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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.”

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

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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