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How to pronounce horrible in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly


war is beyond all words horrible.

Examples of horrible

horrible
Better come off the bench so we have to see only less of that horrible shooting.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Sometimes I pinch myself, hoping that I am in the midst of a horrible nightmare.
From the latimes.com
Sears Tower suddenly occupied a horrible place in Chicago business 10 years ago.
From the suntimes.com
Mini-break to Bolelli, which he hands back with a horrible drop shot of his own.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Indiana State picked a horrible time to turn in its worst defensive performance.
From the kansas.com
It was a fear based more on the shock of two horrible crimes than a real threat.
From the kansas.com
I travelled around Greece 20 years ago and had some horrible toilet experiences.
From the irishtimes.com
We rightly lament the horrible consequences of industrial exposure to radiation.
From the guardian.co.uk
Steve in turn fired Frank Solich and hired a horrible coach named Bill Callahan.
From the omaha.com
More examples
  • Atrocious: 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"
  • (horribly) dreadfully: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
  • A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act; A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles; Causing horror; terrible; shocking; Tremendously wrong or errant
  • (horribleness) The property of being horrible
  • (horribly) In a horrible way; very badly; To an extreme degree or extent; With a very bad effect
  • Causing great and painful fear, dread, or shock. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
  • (adjective) very bad, unpleasant and often frightening