horrible
adjective
hor·ri·ble
ˈhȯr-ə-bəl 
ˈhär-
1
: marked by or arousing painful and intense fear, dread, dismay, or aversion : marked by or arousing horror
a horrible accident
2
: extremely bad or unpleasant
a horrible mistake
horrible food
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Examples of horrible in a Sentence
He suffered a horrible death.
The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
The team had a horrible season last year.
He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
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Although there is high demand among students for internships and other work opportunities, our education-employer ecosystem is doing a horrible job delivering them.
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Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Everyone is forgetting conveniently about October 7, but that was a horrible day for the world, not for Israel, for the world.
—Time Staff, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
Even as the country seeks to emerge from the legacy of those seven horrible years, however, a new government elected in 2023 has become the first since the fall of the dictatorship to justify the regime’s extrajudicial killings and violent repression.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
The curious case made headlines around the country — in large part because of her relatives' insistence that something horrible may have happened.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Everyone is forgetting conveniently about October 7, but that was a horrible day for the world, not for Israel, for the world.
—Time Staff, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
Even as the country seeks to emerge from the legacy of those seven horrible years, however, a new government elected in 2023 has become the first since the fall of the dictatorship to justify the regime’s extrajudicial killings and violent repression.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
The curious case made headlines around the country — in large part because of her relatives' insistence that something horrible may have happened.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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horrible
adjective
hor·ri·ble
ˈhȯr-ə-bəl
ˈhär-
1
: marked by or arousing horror
2
: extremely unpleasant or bad
horrible food
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