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Recent Examples of horrible
Adjective
Continue reading … ‘GET THAT WALL FINISHED’ – VP Harris voters in swing state admit Trump is better for securing ‘horrible’ border. Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024 Grandier’s horrible fate has drawn much attention to the events at Loudun over the years. Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024 Remove Stains From Fabric If your carpets or upholstered furniture are attacked by something greasy, leaving a horrible, oily stain, shampoo is on standby to help you out. Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024 The weather was horrible and the studio had already sunk millions of dollars into the production. Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for horrible 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrible
Adjective
  • Goldberg's words come over a year after The View began an unrelenting battle with gaseous entities, following a horrific water spillage (and mysterious fart noise of unknown origin) that plagued the Hot Topics table in January 2023.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Travis and Jason are clearly very close with one another, and the fan that hurled such a horrific thing led to Jason reacting in a very angry manner.
    James Brizuela, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Winters — who was so terrifying in Heroes of the Fourth Turning and who revealed a messy vulnerability behind Kerry Castellabate’s hard bangs and structured suits on Succession — is a pro at tough, slick surfaces with tangles of insecurity underneath.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Perusing the store’s shelves, there’s the usual lineup of Route 66 merch alongside a host of shirts bearing new and terrifying puns.
    Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • For the evening, the stews break out their coral dresses instead of blacks which are pretty awful.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Jean Dujardin, the French actor who won an Academy Award for that awful silent-movie spoof The Artist, is almost unrecognizable in On the Wandering Paths (Sur les chemins noirs).
    Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Meanwhile Kelly Oubre, who was terrible with the Warriors, has found success with Philadelphia.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Elsbeth and Kaya are suspicious of Roselyn, even after Valentina’s quick assessment — supported by the medical examiner — that Claude’s death was a terrible accident.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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  • Campbell recalled the difficulty of maintaining an intense level of terror for that long but was helped along by Craven.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • At a rally in North Carolina last week, Trump mentioned Obama getting back on the trail and made his voice tremble in fake terror before dismissing him.
    Alex Thompson, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • One popular, gruesome theory has it that a truck ran her over and then sped away, but what happened for sure, no one can tell.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Before his gruesome leg injury, the 24-year-old pass-rusher was on pace to secure an NFL Defensive Player of the Year trophy.
    Jesse Reed, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • For example, people often dodge screenings and diagnostic tests to avoid the frightening possibility of discovering cancer.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Demi Moore is sharing scary photos of a frightening side of her character in the body horror movie The Substance.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • George Kittle On the ugly game: Being able to deal with all of that and still come out with a win.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Poor Sue, who wins the challenge and has to wear that ugly bat signal around her neck.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024

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“Horrible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrible. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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