What's the difference between horrendous and horrific?

Horrendous


Definition:

  • (a.) Fearful; frightful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
  • (2) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (3) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
  • (4) But the way the women who do exist in the film are depicted is horrendous, like, '50s-level sexist.
  • (5) Making places distinctive may seem “horrendous” at the time.
  • (6) So far, the public has been fantastic in coming forward with information to help us, but we need you to help us find these men who we believe were involved in this horrendous attack.
  • (7) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
  • (8) "We all knew the weather was going to be horrendous, but it feels like the right preparation wasn't in place," said Hawkes.
  • (9) The horrendous due process violations in the Paghman trial have only worsened the injustices of this terrible crime,” said Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch.
  • (10) Given the horrendous cost of relegation, three clubs, believed to be relegated Fulham and Cardiff as well as Norwich, have done so, two in early April and one more recently.
  • (11) A horrendous blunder by Mertesacker presents the ball to Aluko, who goes around Fabianksi.
  • (12) FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • (13) Worse still, the horrendous costs of a libel case mean that losing can result in a legal bill running to over £1m (even if the damages are just £10,000).
  • (14) "As we have previously stated, FGM is a horrendous practice and a serious violation of internationally recognised human rights.
  • (15) The parents of Delagrange, who was attacked as she walked home at night on Twickenham Green in 2004, were in court for the verdict, as was Sheedy, who suffered horrendous injuries after Bellfield ran her over near her house in Isleworth, west London .
  • (16) If she hadn't been able to get legal aid, her two-year-old would have continued living in unsanitary, horrendous conditions."
  • (17) Coming to the Commons as the face of a bill which is currently being rewritten by other people, the health secretary Andrew Lansley had a horrendous task yesterday.
  • (18) Leaflets from the electoral commission , which were designed to explain what the reform would mean to every household with meticulous neutrality, ended up making AV look horrendously complex.
  • (19) He is in a horrendously difficult position and will never get everything right.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Benn gives his speech in favour of airstrikes in the House of Commons “The abuse they are getting, the words they are using are just horrendous.

Horrific


Definition:

  • (a.) Causing horror; frightful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
  • (2) She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”.
  • (3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
  • (4) The notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've moved on to other things, that's not who we are."
  • (5) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
  • (6) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
  • (7) The response to this horrific incident seems to be a growing trend where travellers understand the geography, distances and circumstances, and weigh up risks in a real way."
  • (8) The poor are often the people deeply rooted in place, whether they’re fisherfolk in the Mekong Delta (due to go underwater from rising seas) or farmers in desertifying Africa or India, where a horrific heatwave and drought killed at least 300 last month and left 330 million without enough water.
  • (9) Kevin Williamson in National Review wrote that there is “no non-horrific interpretation” of the episode with the stones.
  • (10) What happened to her was beyond horrific, she suffered that night, she suffered in prison and she is still suffering.” Ibrahim’s lawyer, Nigel Richardson, is preparing to submit her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which pursues miscarriages of justice.
  • (11) 'And, yes, it has horrifically backfired, but I think this could have backfired for any other family.'
  • (12) There was the man who did all those horrific things outside the home as part of his job.
  • (13) A majority believes that spending cuts and tax rises are necessary responses to a horrific budget deficit and many hold Labour rather than the coalition responsible for the Britain's ills.
  • (14) In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns.
  • (15) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
  • (16) Perpetrators must never be allowed to think that their horrific acts will go overlooked or go unpunished ... Victims and survivors … deserve to be heard now, just as they should have been years ago, and they deserve justice, just as they did then,” she said.
  • (17) The horrific killing of Matthew Shepard in 1998 is widely seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in American history.
  • (18) He’s been the outstanding player.” Quick to tweet about Kane being on fire – complete with flame emojis – when the Tottenham Hotspur striker scored against Lithuania, Austin was taken to task on Twitter by Joey Barton, his QPR team-mate, the following morning for his “horrific” dress sense after he appeared on Soccer AM .
  • (19) Ebola is a horrific disease that kills more than half of people infected by it, though with specialist western treatment that death rate would likely fall a little.
  • (20) Tuesday’s horrific chemical attack was a war crime which requires urgent independent UN investigation and those responsible must be held to account.” Corbyn said there was a need to “urgently reconvene the Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict”.