horrible
adjective
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appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
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Something this bulky, which encourages shorter mouse movements, is also horrible for gaming—the company’s G502 Proteus Spectrum is more flexible there. — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, "The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—good tech for the home and home office," 19 Nov. 2018 What’s more, our frivolous impulse buys are absolutely horrible for the planet. — Rebekka Ayres, Teen Vogue, "Black Friday, Explained: A Complete History," 23 Nov. 2018 The Flex 2 and the Alta HR are better to sleep with than the Charge 3, but that doesn't make the experience of snoozing with the Charge 3 horrible. — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, "Fitbit Charge 3 review: Peppering a fitness tracker with smartwatch powers," 12 Oct. 2018 Something horrible is going on, something out of shot. — New York Times, "What Does It Mean to Look at This?," 24 May 2018 Suddenly, our awkward family dinners on Thanksgiving don't seem so horrible. — Madison Medeiros, refinery29.com, "Camilla Is Spilling Royal Family Tea About Meghan Markle," 23 May 2018 What’s been reported is horrible and something no person should go through. — Jim Mustian, The Seattle Times, "Uber driver charged with kidnapping New York woman," 17 Oct. 2018 And auditions are insane and stupid and horrible and weird and make no sense. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "How The Good Place’s D’Arcy Carden became Janet," 15 Sep. 2018 This is someone who is highly knowledgeable of women being cycled through for horrible and degrading behavior by someone who was an absolute monster. — James Hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Trump’s mockery of the #MeToo movement underscores the GOP’s problem with women in 2018," 6 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'horrible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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