frightfulness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for frightfulness
Noun
  • What the American people really deserve is not mass resignations or brief, fake shutdowns that stir up political chaos in Washington, DC, while Americans across the country watch in horror or turn a blind eye in disgust.
    Nicole Russell, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Over the course of nine films that span more than 50 years, not once does horror film icon Leatherface take sensible chainsaw safety precautions.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The evening news reported on atrocities committed by Russian forces in Chechnya and on corruption schemes that implicated top officials in the Kremlin.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge atrocities in the late 1970s were recognized as genocide against the Cham and Vietnamese minorities, with convictions at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Up-market producer David Susskind railed for four hours about the awfulness of the boob tube.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Howard, now in his 70s, decided to make a film about the fundamental awfulness of other humans, delivering one of his darkest stories in the process.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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“Frightfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frightfulness. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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