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hor·ri·fy·ing

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  1. atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, uglyadjective

    provoking horror

    "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

    Synonyms:
    frightful, flagitious, unworthy, wretched, terrible, monstrous, fearful, horrible, worthless, tremendous, abominable, unspeakable, awful, grievous, atrocious, slimy, ugly, dreadful, vile, despicable, painful, surly

    Antonyms:
    unalarming

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#20769worthless
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#30875monstrous
#30945wretched
#36370gruesome
#38864horrendous
#38945unworthy
#39885horrifying
#40529grievous
#45237unspeakable
#45529heinous
#46824surly
#47706despicable
#48820slimy
#50274atrocious
#51404abominable
#54515frightful

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  1. Mohammed Abdiker:

    The situation is dire, some reports are truly horrifying and the latest reports of' slave markets' for migrants can be added to a long list of outrages.

  2. Richard Fidler:

    We’ve kind of approached a natural limit with how much we can stare down at screens. The next natural place for that screen to live is thoroughly integrated into what we’re seeing so we don’t ever look down at the screen because the world has become the screen, in some sense it’s horrifying.

  3. Fadi Quran:

    I consider it to be horrifying that the most vulnerable swing state voters that we have out there right now, whose decisions will determine the fate of the country, are being preyed upon by misinformation.

  4. Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic:

    It is my duty to break the silence and tell the Croatian public that we cannot confirm with 100 percent certainty that it is true what we see, and which is horrifying, i don’t know if we will be able to do it in the coming days, but what we see does not look good ... I'm afraid that for the first time, what has happened to the citizens of other countries has happened to a Croatian citizen.

  5. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill:

    The shocking discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal remains in Illinois, left in a garage and in the trunk of a car, was horrifying to anyone with normal sensibilities.


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