as in dreadfulness
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Recent Examples of terribleness
Catullus’s work shows us ourselves, in all our three-dimensional goodness and terribleness, and sometimes this vision, in 2025, comes as a fun vindication.
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Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terribleness
Noun
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Villainy, at the elite level, will not content itself with offensiveness alone; the all-timers, the boundary-pushers, bring fresh nuance to their antics.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The real ugliness, in other words, starts now.—
Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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The deep reluctance of house hunters to buy in 2023 and 2025 was compared with the ugliness of the 2007-2009 debacle.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Terribleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terribleness. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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