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
  • Trump has said repeatedly that Kimmel's ratings are awful.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • As inane and sterile as the marketing was, the actual event wasn’t awful.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Hart was short, with a hideous combover.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That hideous incentive triggered My Lai and other similarly heinous attacks.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Indy has beaten up on three teams that are a combined 1-8, two of those team with horrid defenses feeding the legend of Daniel (Indiana) Jones.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That sounds absolutely horrible.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Their ratings are also horrible.
    William Earl, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • As if the Twins hadn’t experienced enough misery, September opened at home with an ugly, four-game sweep by the White Sox, who lost at least 100 games for the third year in a row.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When the Motion Picture Association of America joined the consortium, in 2014, the fight grew uglier.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • One abominable practice used on political adversaries was tarring and feathering.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Batemen gets a few moving monologues, but Vince’s heavier dose of morbid witticisms aren’t enough to overcome his pervasive selfishness and abominable behavior (nor is a late-arriving revelation about his past).
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 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 1 Oct. 2025.

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