god-awful

adjective

Definition of god-awfulnext
as in awful

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for god-awful
  1. awful
  2. hideous
  3. horrid
  4. horrible
  5. ugly
  6. abominable
  7. horrendous
  8. loathsome
Adjective
  • As a unit, the Bengals defense has been awful, only scoring four PPG, which is the 4th least in the NFL.
    Steve Bradshaw, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But even if the company succeeds, internet users have a way of pushing the boundaries of new tools like this until every possible awful output has been demonstrated.
    Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of awful
Adjective
  • No abstract theory regardless of how sincerely held should impede or distract from that hideous, concrete real-world reality.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The Menendez trials — the first of the two ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury — became such a sensation in part because of the hideous nature of the crime, but also because of who Lyle and Erik were.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of hideous
Adjective
  • After a horrid start to the season, the Bucks have won 12 of their last 15 games.
    Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The Cleveland Browns, amid their horrid season, have sent Cooper to the Buffalo Bills, according to multiple reports.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of horrid
Adjective
  • Although there is high demand among students for internships and other work opportunities, our education-employer ecosystem is doing a horrible job delivering them.
    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
Definition of horrible
Adjective
  • For many people, finding the perfect ugly Christmas sweater is an annual tradition.
    Shea Simmons, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In a Hungarian cartoon from around 1951, Churchill is seen as an ugly villain, ready to set households and factories on fire.
    Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of ugly
Adjective
  • But that face is all the better to leer at his creator with, and Ito’s Frankenstein does a wonderful job at capturing a man being chased by his own abominable choices.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
  • His new home is a notorious federal jail in New York City known for extreme violence and abominable medical care.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2024
Definition of abominable
Adjective
  • Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna joins me now, and this is obviously just a horrendous crime, but has this online vitriol surprised you?
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Furtwängler seemed to be superhumanly trying to restore not just the culture but the humanity that Germany had disregarded in its horrendous war.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of horrendous
Adjective
  • More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Denzel Washington was gruesomely low down in the dirt as a cop willing to wield his privilege against vulnerable Black and brown communities in 2001’s admittedly loathsome Training Day.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2024
Definition of loathsome
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