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horrifying
adjective as in atrocious
adjective as in awesome
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adjective as in awful
adjective as in bloodcurdling
adjective as in frightful/frightening
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- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- dismaying
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- ghastly
- grabber
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hairy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- inconceivable
- intimidating
- lurid
- macabre
- menacing
- morbid
- ominous
- petrifying
- portentous
- repellent
- spooky
- terrible
- terrifying
- traumatic
- unnerving
- unspeakable
adjective as in gruesome
adjective as in lurid
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adjective as in monstrous
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adjective as in nightmarish
adjective as in scary
adjective as in sensational
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adjective as in shocking
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adjective as in terrible
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Example Sentences
He described Plumb's plans as "horrifying", adding: "They are distressing even for seasoned professionals to read."
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".
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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