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horrendous

[haw-ren-duhs, ho-]

adjective

shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin horrendus dreadful, to be feared (gerund of horrēre to bristle, shudder), equivalent to horr- (akin to hirsute) + -endus gerund suffix

Related forms

hor·ren·dous·ly, adverb

Synonyms
appalling, frightful, hideous.

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Example Sentences

The public, private, charter and religious realms all contain schools that range from good to not so good to downright horrendous.

Wal-Mart has a horrendous track record with workers' rights and access to health insurance.

The horrendous scenes revealed cattle being whipped, stabbed and gouged.

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The public, private, charter and religious realms all contain schools that range from good to not so good to downright horrendous.

Wal-Mart has a horrendous track record with workers' rights and access to health insurance.

The horrendous scenes revealed cattle being whipped, stabbed and gouged.

Many of the refugees suffered horrendous atrocities along the way.

Soldiers witnessing horrendous carnage often become numb and tortured souls, painfully reliving battle moments.

Living in the shadow of such a horrendous catastrophe didn't faze us.

There are plenty of awesomely horrendous low-budget music videos.

Bribery, altered transcripts and players who never graduate have given college sports a horrendous public image.

Unfortunately, the errors are so horrendous that these references are not needed.

Americans are braced for their third horrendous summer of air travel in a row.

After a horrendous couple of decades, the national team once again basked in the warmth of the nation's affections.

Nitrogen fertilizer runoff is also horrendous for the environment.

It would be a horrendous insult to the men who died there.

It could be polished and fantastic, or it could be a horrendous car-crash of misspelled slash fiction.

The condition of the hallways and lobby is horrendous.

And the rate of growth in some countries is horrendous.

Sliding down to that low after experiencing such a high point was horrendous.

What leads to the horrendous movies in the end is that it does not really matter what scientists say.

Boys would tell you in gory detail how they'd draw and quarter and do all sorts of horrendous things to finish him off.

Yes, it was a brutal hundred years, marked by horrendous destruction.

The natural attrition rate of fish larvae is horrendous.

In hearing the horrendous news my heart is deeply saddened.

The environmental impact and cost would be horrendous.

For instance, the weather has been absolutely horrendous.

Unfortunately, tomorrow will come and every nation will face horrendous debts and deficits with dead economies.

Jefferson held slaves and horrendous opinions concerning race, etc.

Natural resources are being used up at a horrendous rate.

Italy can blame so much of their problems on this horrendous leader.

Oakland is trying to return to normal after a horrendous and atypical bout of black-white racial tension.

The authorities described the accident as a horrendous crash.

The horrendous results of what you did make it likely you will be scrupulously honest this time round.

Drilling in protected areas would provide little relief, and at horrendous environmental risks.

Then there was a huge explosion and a horrendous fireball''.

I've heard horrendous horror stories from a friend who is a faculty there.

And, although applying for patents is relatively cheap, the cost of maintaining them can be horrendous.

If these drugs are helpful it is horrendous that they will not use them until they don't make you high.

Diane is a brave, outspoken woman with a horrendous family history.

Parking and traffic right around the campus can be horrendous.

It came about after two horrendous murders of girls by people who had committed previous crimes.

The large saber-toothed and scimitar cats had huge canines that could inflict horrendous wounds.

What their thoughts and feelings were in the years that followed this horrendous crime.

The scene is almost an exact reproduction of the famous photograph taken that horrendous day.

Horrendous crimes are in the local media for as short a time period as possible and are never part of the mainstream news.

Max survives a horrendous crash without a scratch, though he is profoundly changed.

And sadly, carnage with horrendous numbers of dead and injured results from accidental crashes into crowds.

Fugitive emissions from the natural gas industry are incredibly small relative to the horrendous emissions coming from coal.

Baku is smothered in petrodollars, with glitzy new buildings and horrendous traffic jams.

Yes there are people who say they are doing things in the higher powers name and yet they are horrendous things.

Given the horrendous mess being bequeathed to him, he must be wondering whether the wooing was worth.

Corruption and petty bribery have reached horrendous levels in our country.

Taking into consideration the health factors, this horrendous increase caused me to quit smoking.

Otherwise, a reconstruction of global economy will be a painful and can be a horrendous process for all.

In those days each and every horrendous act was permissible.

It has done so despite its horrendous infrastructure, bureaucracy, terrorism and poor governance.

Anyone claiming otherwise obviously knows nothing about this horrendous system.

They are also about to shoot themselves in the foot, voting to maintain the horrendous status quo taking hold in.

The price of such greed was horrendous to innocent tax payers.

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World English Dictionary

horrendous (hɒˈrɛndəs)

—*adj*
	another word for horrific

[C17: from Latin horrendus fearful, from horrēre to bristle, shudder, tremble; see horror]

hor'rendously

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

horrendous

1659, from L. horrendus "to be shuddered at," gerundive of horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror).

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