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Recent Examples of horrifically
Last seen horrifically disfigured and injured on Earth-X, Peacemaker's alternate-universe brother survived despite Harcourt's attempt to kill him.
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Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.
—Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
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
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
The accident leaves him horrifically disfigured, but also gifts him with enhanced strength.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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
Did anyone else forget that John Adams was horrifically run over by a horse-and-cart because of the focus on this gossip book?
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.
—Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
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
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
The accident leaves him horrifically disfigured, but also gifts him with enhanced strength.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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
Did anyone else forget that John Adams was horrifically run over by a horse-and-cart because of the focus on this gossip book?
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrifically
Adverb
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What has become horribly and painfully obvious post-strike is that as the challenges facing our business have risen, the press and the chatter has gotten way more negative.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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But in the interim, since the dragon’s demise, something has gone terribly wrong.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Oct. 2025
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When Ashton reacted terribly, well, he got pushed off that cliff.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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That stat is going to be awfully difficult to beat.—
Tyler Geis,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That debate can seem awfully quaint.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 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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Former President Joe Biden technically reduced the deficit, but only after beginning his presidency with a $3 trillion shortfall in 2021 to fund his disastrously inflationary American Rescue Plan.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
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The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Ohtani didn’t fare so poorly himself, hitting a two-run home run in the seventh inning off Braydon Fisher.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, a major drug trial for a new indication went poorly.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 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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Each said the department's practices are inadequately protecting students.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.—
Jamie Johnson,
Verywell Health,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Horrifically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrifically. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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