horrible

horrible

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  1. hirmuinen

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horrible

  1. huolestuttava, hirveä, hirvittävä, julma, kamala, kauhea, kauhistuttava, hirmuinen, inhottava, järkyttävä, kaamea, karmea, karmiva.

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hirveä, hirmuinen, inhottava, kaamea, kauhea A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
2000, John Dean, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/21/ip.00.html CNN interview, January 21, 2000:
I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
2001, Neil K. Komesar, Laws Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights''
Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
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Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:(..)it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
(quote-book)|author=(w)|comment=The New Yorker, March 19
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tremendously Tremendously bad.
2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook 2010'', https://books.google.com/books?id=-1aM7D_ymdAC&lpg=PA599&dq=%22horrible%20movie%22&pg=PA599v=onepage&q=%22horrible%20movie%22&f=false page 599:
Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.
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(l); causing horror.

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