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horribleness

/hawr-uh-buhl, hor-/US // ˈhɔr ə bəl, ˈhɒr- //UK // (ˈhɒrəbəl) //

可怕性,恐怖,恐怖性,可怕的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
    • : extremely unpleasant; deplorable; disgusting: horrible living conditions.

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Examples

  • “What we went through in 2016 was a totally different experience, and the pressure was horrible,” she said.

  • The top slider is called “Happiness” and pushing it to its maximum produced this horrible result that will almost certainly haunt you well after you’ve closed this article.

  • Part of me feels the pain of some damaged soul who had horrible demons placed upon his soul.

  • “We thought with the pandemic we would have a little bit of respite from horrible policies targeting asylum-seekers, but they continue,” immigration attorney Tammy Lin said.

  • So, we know in urban environments — this was happening before the pandemic and it’s only been accelerated now — that the retail environment is horrible.

  • But somehow the blind men themselves seldom seem to be overwhelmed by its horribleness.

  • He could not tell what fears had crowded upon him—they were indistinct in their horribleness—but some of them had already flown.

  • If I have one horror on earth which transcends all other horrors in horribleness, that horror is—pirates.

  • Amidst the horribleness of the dead, the men fought and lived.

  • Cain's words therefore are here to be understood affirmatively, and they show the horribleness of his despair.