nightmarish
Example Sentences
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“And then I went through the whole nightmarish process of getting the data.”
Mills is nightmarishly representative of the tired, failed politics that have made the Democratic party so unpopular, even as it’s the only viable alternative to the rising fascism of the GOP.
From Salon
Her nightmarish laugh, gravity-defying hairdo and ferocious temper were part of a carefully constructed character that ranks as a comic masterpiece.
From BBC
A Dodgers team that had given up five total runs in its previous five games, had suddenly yielded seven in one nightmarish inning.
From Los Angeles Times
Painting a nightmarish vision of what he claimed life would be like under a Farage government, he sought to portray the Lib Dems as the guardians of British values of "tolerance, decency, and respect".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.