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Recent Examples of horribly
To my right, the lady abused me horribly and then jumped on the bandwagon and acted like nothing happened.
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
The game went horribly wrong from the start as Bay FC had no answers for Icelandic forward Sveindís Jónsdóttir, who scored two goals and had an assist in front of 10,299 fans.
—Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
If the Red Sox don’t take at minimum one step forward, something will have gone horribly wrong.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
After a meeting with one of them goes horribly wrong, Devlin and her publicist Sylvie, another a victim of Hollywood’s censure, find revenge offers a unique albeit gruesome ingredient for Glob’s products.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
The damage done to the North African country’s records of cultural heritage could be horribly destructive and irreversible, warned a call for solidarity released in 2023 by the International Council of Museums.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026
But the Red Raiders horribly lost their best player, JT Toppin, to a knee injury and while head coach Grant McCasland has done a great job keeping things together, their defense is not nearly as good without him.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Mar. 2026
In each show, the two nitwits would set out on some caper, which would inevitably go horribly wrong, leaving them broke, or tied up, or in jail, or hanging over a cliff, or some other situation of great peril.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
And yesterday, they were made to look horribly out of place at Atletico Madrid, collectively and individually.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
The game went horribly wrong from the start as Bay FC had no answers for Icelandic forward Sveindís Jónsdóttir, who scored two goals and had an assist in front of 10,299 fans.
—Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
If the Red Sox don’t take at minimum one step forward, something will have gone horribly wrong.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
After a meeting with one of them goes horribly wrong, Devlin and her publicist Sylvie, another a victim of Hollywood’s censure, find revenge offers a unique albeit gruesome ingredient for Glob’s products.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
The damage done to the North African country’s records of cultural heritage could be horribly destructive and irreversible, warned a call for solidarity released in 2023 by the International Council of Museums.
—News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026
But the Red Raiders horribly lost their best player, JT Toppin, to a knee injury and while head coach Grant McCasland has done a great job keeping things together, their defense is not nearly as good without him.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Mar. 2026
In each show, the two nitwits would set out on some caper, which would inevitably go horribly wrong, leaving them broke, or tied up, or in jail, or hanging over a cliff, or some other situation of great peril.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
And yesterday, they were made to look horribly out of place at Atletico Madrid, collectively and individually.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horribly
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In Geekbench, the A18 Pro’s single-core speeds weren't terribly far behind the A16’s multi-core<\/em> speeds.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Also, stars in this frenzied state aren’t terribly stable; the fusion rate can be tempestuous, and the star undergoes incredibly violent paroxysms.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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More than anything, this documentary is dreadfully dull.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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That’s another company with a stock that acts dreadfully.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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The classic bikini fairing harks back to the original café racer's front end, surrounding a pair of awfully low-slung clip-on handlebars and dual electronic clocks behind a compact visor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
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But the combination of naked ambition, absence of cynicism, and a sunny disposition seemed awfully suspicious.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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Davis did himself no favors with anyone with that performance, which anyone with an extensive TV background (which Davis has) should have known would play poorly on a nationwide scale.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
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The camp is isolated and poorly resourced, and its traditions—including its conception of gender roles—can be painfully rigid.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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This way, the white people are exposed treating the Indigenous people horrendously — putting clothes on them, taking pictures without permission and treating them without respect.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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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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The second trip, of course, went disastrously wrong, but less than a year later, Prager, Cochise, and two other crew members made the run for the third time in as many years, this time netting close to 10,000 pounds of product and successfully running it to Florida.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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Their relentless and slick positional rotations routinely pull opponents disastrously out of shape, allowing their blistering speed and dribbling skill to exploit the space created, aided by the attacking thrust of Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi from the full-back positions.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Friendships fraying, puberty unevenly invading our bodies in ways both private and horrifically public.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
11 Mar. 2026
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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Despite the robotic-like confidence coming from the Kremlin’s top policymakers and propagandists, the Russian army’s territorial gains over the last year have been abysmally small.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Horribly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horribly. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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