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ADJECTIVE
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grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
subjected to outrageous cruelty
horrific conditions in the mining industry
a hideous pattern of injustice -
causing fear or dread or terror
the awful war
a fearful howling
the dread presence of the headmaster
dire news
a terrible curse
an awful risk
a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
horrendous explosions shook the city
a dreadful storm
polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
How To Use horrific In A Sentence
- Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
- The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
- And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
- Here was someone who did not allow the horrific hand of commercialism to dilute his message.
- The place was only half full and it was still dark outside but it was way past bedtime on a Saturday night and midterms were just a dim, horrific memory.
- His body was covered in horrific bedsores that caused him to cry out in pain whenever they were touched.
- A rookie firefighter who was on his first day's duty with Keighley's Blue Watch has been praised for his actions when he was called to an horrific death blaze.
- Police are treating the horrific crime as robbery. The Sun
- Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational?
- These latter numbers look horrific, and seem hard to believe, but we are currently set on a path (especially now with the "breakages" in the banking system - today there is growing and informed specultion here in Catalonia that Caixa Penedes, and Caixa Catalunya may be the next to go) where it is hard to see how we won't get to that horrible place if no one does anything. A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros