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Recent Examples of horrendous Coach Billy Napier’s team blended play-calling staleness, horrendous clock management, defensive containment issues and overall immaturity. Noah White, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 And so to see that despite the exploitation that enslaved people were being subjected to despite the horrendous conditions, all this brutality going on, and yet people are trying actively recreating traditions, right? Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025 Several of the bolts that were clipped rip right out of the rock, causing a horrendous fall directly onto the belayer’s device and harness. Kate Kelleghan, Outside, 20 Aug. 2025 Massachusetts has a horrendous reputation as the most criminal-loving anti-prosecution, anti-incarceration state in the nation. Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horrendous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrendous
Adjective
  • Can a horrible 17-year-old turn into a 31-year-old person with integrity and empathy?
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Can a 17-year-old horrible person turn into a 31-year-old person with integrity and empathy?
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But one other thing Reclaim does is show just how awful the Portal system is.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • How the Dolphins grow from such an awful performance will be paramount.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Right-wing politicians have long used horrific crime stories – particularly those featuring Black suspects and White victims – to make broader criticisms of Democrats as soft on crime.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The surveillance footage of the horrific attack was released by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) over the weekend, FOX News reported.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These shifting climates intimately shaped the biosphere over this span (and vice versa), and in occasional terrifying pulses, threatened to end it.
    Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That was a terrifying last four days.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The only debate is which of his five interceptions against LSU was the ugliest and/or costliest in a 20-10 loss.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The results were ugly and caused lasting damage to our citizens' livelihoods and our city's reputation.
    Ted Wheeler, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But everything changes when a string of gruesome killings—which grow increasingly bizarre, with victims covered in rashes and found in deranged, violent states—involves his young daughter Hyo-jin (Kim Hwan-hee).
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • TikTok prohibits gory, gruesome or extremely violent clips.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yes, there are so much terrible stuff online.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • But that obviously terrible call compromised the integrity of that game last night, and that's something the sport should be looking to avoid.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This behavior is disgusting and they should be fired.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And yet … those conversations are also entertainingly provocative, and they’re accompanied by some of the scariest and most disgusting scenes the series has delivered up to now.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Horrendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrendous. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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