god-awful

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Recent Examples of god-awful His meme humor and utter dedication to that god-awful nickname should be annoying. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for god-awful
Adjective
  • Once the selloff happened, the Twins were destined to be awful for the final two months, all but sealing Baldelli’s fate.
    Aaron Gleeman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the awful low; but Dunne’s story is ultimately one of redemption.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.
    Ed Simon September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • One of the most hideous of the victim/perps is Jennifer McCabe.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Tigers won two of three against the Mariners early in the season, then got swept by Seattle at home and were outscored 35-14 during a July series that marked the start of a horrid slide.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But the Bengals have a horrid ground game and couldn’t feed the ball consistently to their two best playmakers against the Vikings, and got walloped for it.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Miami could choose to move on from the star receiver due to the horrible season-ending injury.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the game’s best teams spent the regular season alternating between brilliant and horrible.
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • If the scoreline made for ugly reading, the performance wasn’t much better.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • With the return of Worthy, whose tremendous rookie year was punctuated with his eight-catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns in the otherwise abominable Super Bowl loss to the Eagles, everything else was both more in its place and expanded through his presence.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The assassination of Charlie Kirk has cast a dark shadow over the country, not only because the deed itself was abominable, but also because the reaction to it has been so disturbing.
    Michael Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many players have gotten injured and now Malik Nabers and Joe Alt are the latest victim to the horrendous turf.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking to local and international press, Park also voiced unease over the state of the Korean film industry, which after suffering a horrendous first half of the year, is faring slightly better since July.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maxwell comes off as both pathetic and loathsome.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025

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“God-awful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/god-awful. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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