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Recent Examples of horribly
Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
That doesn’t sound horribly expensive—at first.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Set over the course of a multi-day lesbian date between Naima (Alia Shawkat) and Sergio (played by Laia Costa), Duck Butter is the classic tale of U-hauling gone horribly wrong.
—Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
The false calls emerge from an atmosphere where the threat of mass gun violence is horribly real.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Good teams have bad weeks, even bad months; the Mets started horribly last season, and romped into the National League Championship Series.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
To fix what’s gone horribly wrong in Deerfield Beach, the sheriff could show up at next week’s commission meeting and openly discuss their differences.
—Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
The lack of new signings, which makes their squad horribly thin outside of the starting XI.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
That doesn’t sound horribly expensive—at first.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
Set over the course of a multi-day lesbian date between Naima (Alia Shawkat) and Sergio (played by Laia Costa), Duck Butter is the classic tale of U-hauling gone horribly wrong.
—Quispe López, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
The false calls emerge from an atmosphere where the threat of mass gun violence is horribly real.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Good teams have bad weeks, even bad months; the Mets started horribly last season, and romped into the National League Championship Series.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
To fix what’s gone horribly wrong in Deerfield Beach, the sheriff could show up at next week’s commission meeting and openly discuss their differences.
—Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
The lack of new signings, which makes their squad horribly thin outside of the starting XI.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horribly
Adverb
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But there’s also darkness in Cherry’s past, including an ex-boyfriend who has either terribly wronged her or been terribly wronged by her.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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And what if that fight didn’t go terribly well?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is climbing the home run leaderboard awfully quickly.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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For a movie about a man running from the emptiness within, Ballad of a Small Player rings awfully hollow.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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However, a number of attendees posted negative comments about the event on social media, with many claiming that the experience was chaotic and poorly organized.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Unlike Tom and Jasmine’s cakes, however, his Victoria sponge is totally gross and poorly made.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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This prediction almost proved disastrously far from the truth.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Hailing from a time before the relentless onslaught of social media, Trumpian politics, COVID, and artificial intelligence, the Magnetic Zeros’ prelapsarian sincerity now appears disastrously blithe.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The accident leaves him horrifically disfigured, but also gifts him with enhanced strength.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Lohan, a gifted actor whose career has had some shaky turns, is left to build a performance on her costumes, an assortment of allegedly kicky but in reality horrifically ugly teenage-girl getups.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
8 Aug. 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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Inspectors saw an employee inadequately reheating veggie meat.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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If soils have been dry or inadequately irrigated, consider harvesting nearly ripe fruit before rainstorm events to avoid cracking.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Horribly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horribly. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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