nightmarish
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Our critic called the presentation “an uneasy and vivid blend of daydream and nightmarish reality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
While there are aspirations to turn the river into a greenbelt, nightmarish pollution incidents have still haunted Southeast L.A. communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
One of its all-time best, Season 2’s “Teddy Perkins,” contained all the tension of a nightmarish horror thriller.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
For this reason she left her alone with her embroidery threads and said nothing about Rosa’s nightmarish zoology.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing nightmarish
Rowan of Rin
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Novel Study: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 12–20
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