horrible
/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ noun A2- A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
- A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Plural horribles
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It would have been too horrible.”
“Horrible enough!” said the doctor, looking at the shattered head and the terrible marks which surrounded it.
Then either in cold blood or in the course of a struggle—Douglas may have gripped the hammer that was found upon the mat—he shot Douglas in this horrible way.
Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I’d be so afraid it was all a dream.
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