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How to pronounce horrendous in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible


horrendous explosions shook the city.

Examples of horrendous

horrendous
If we lose the Post Office it's going to be bedlam, it's a horrendous situation.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
It's uniformly horrendous, and does away with any meaning and soul in the music.
From the guardian.co.uk
Take for instance the air in Los Angeles, California, which was horrendous then.
From the cnn.com
Abortion hurts women and inflicts a horrendous and brutal death on the children.
From the washingtontimes.com
There was also a truly horrendous-looking winter wonderland Christmas tray bake.
From the independent.co.uk
But few could have predicted something so horrendous would have stolen the show.
From the couriermail.com.au
University life was horrendous enough without suggestions like group food shops.
From the guardian.co.uk
The original bassist, Cliff Burton, died in a horrendous 1986 tour-bus accident.
From the time.com
The traffic along the coast road from Brighton to Rottingdean is horrendous now.
From the theargus.co.uk
More examples
  • Awful: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous ...
  • Extremely bad; awful; terrible
  • (horrendously) In a horrendous manner