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Recent Examples of horribly
Noel Acciari, who has been horribly banged up in recent years, made his preseason debut in this one.
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Josh Yohe, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
With a parachute billowing behind him, Miura makes a couple of pizza turns on the sheer and horribly icy Lhotse Face before catching an edge and then tumbling several thousand feet to the bank of a crevasse.
—Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
Price hikes are almost always unpopular, but unveiling them immediately after offending subscribers, employees, politicians, and celebrities is tone-deaf and horribly timed.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Matthew Perry shared this behind-the-scenes pic of him and former onscreen wife Courteney Cox hanging out while filming an episode of Perry's own comedy series Go On, in which the two go on (another) date that goes horribly wrong — Grand Theft Auto-style.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Wolfe Herd’s story is somewhat different, however; Swiped is an unofficial biopic for the simple reason that key parts of the story are still subject to a stifling non-disclosure agreement, for reasons that soon become horribly clear.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
That doesn’t sound horribly expensive—at first.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Josh Yohe, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
With a parachute billowing behind him, Miura makes a couple of pizza turns on the sheer and horribly icy Lhotse Face before catching an edge and then tumbling several thousand feet to the bank of a crevasse.
—Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
Price hikes are almost always unpopular, but unveiling them immediately after offending subscribers, employees, politicians, and celebrities is tone-deaf and horribly timed.
—Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2025
Matthew Perry shared this behind-the-scenes pic of him and former onscreen wife Courteney Cox hanging out while filming an episode of Perry's own comedy series Go On, in which the two go on (another) date that goes horribly wrong — Grand Theft Auto-style.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Wolfe Herd’s story is somewhat different, however; Swiped is an unofficial biopic for the simple reason that key parts of the story are still subject to a stifling non-disclosure agreement, for reasons that soon become horribly clear.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
The house is haunted by a family of farmers that lived and died on the land, murdered horribly by the patriarch of the family, but really, the problem is the demon that controls the mirror and its dark reflections.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
That doesn’t sound horribly expensive—at first.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horribly
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Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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Immediate forgiveness – a message of letting go of the anger that comes with being so terribly wronged – has a familiar sound to those who have been following a frighteningly violent news cycle.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Panthers were awfully thin at receiver come the game’s end.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Sep. 2025
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And Weber has to keep Canvas Stadium full — or awfully close.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Luis Gil continued to pitch poorly, proving the questions around why the Yankees started him in the first place were warranted.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The episode reflects poorly on Your Party’s leadership, but that’s not the only obstacle the project is up against.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Oct. 2025
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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This disastrously cramped conception of who gets to have a day in court would be the main target of my outrage if the court’s opinion on the use of ethnicity, language and workplace as factors in immigration enforcement weren’t even more upsetting.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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This prediction almost proved disastrously far from the truth.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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The film follows Mark and Dawn through horrifically fraught times, as Mark battles an opioid addiction and Dawn struggles to support her mercurial man through personal and professional upheavals.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Oct. 2025
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The week in Indianapolis began under terrible circumstances, with 15 shot over a horrifically violent weekend in the city.—
Joe Mutascio,
IndyStar,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Confidence in the media is abysmally low, a finding confirmed regularly by many pollsters asking many different questions.—
Karlyn Bowman,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Social media companies, from Meta to X, have largely abandoned any attempt at moderating content on their platforms, having previously (albeit inadequately) attempted some form of fact-checking and take-downs of incendiary material and flagrant disinformation.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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For most of the nearly 20% of kindergartners who haven’t had their full schedule of shots, their families have never requested an exemption; the children are simply inadequately immunized.—
Jason Kane,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Horribly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horribly. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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