(a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
(2) And it’s horrible to make these books sound homogeneous,” Brackstone says, “but in a way, they’re all different aspects of the same story.
(3) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(4) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
(5) A formation featuring Mile Jedinak playing just in front of the back four suggested a draw would suit them just fine, and a horribly sterile first half, during which each team mustered precisely one shot on goal, confirmed as much.
(6) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(7) The condensed version of the UN rights commission’s report into the country runs to just 36 horrible pages.
(8) Other stories are circulating – about a Trabelsi who gave someone a horrible kicking because he felt like it, or another who caused a car accident only to return home to sleep.
(9) We’ve been through the courts three times, and it’s a horrible, horrible process and we need to make sure that this doesn’t happen to any other family,” Georgie said.
(10) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(11) If the ACA is really so horrible, then let’s hear a better plan.
(12) We said before the game, life’s horrible, it’s really tough sometimes; you get a kick in the teeth just when you think you’ve made it and, wow, did we get a kick in the teeth in our semi-final.
(13) They make it horrible.” Jakarta’s existing three cycle lanes are painted a foot or two wide – and ignored by motorists.
(14) The irony of this is that today, when I was getting all of this horrible antisemitic shit that I’ve only ever seen in Russia, I was reminded that 26 years ago today my family came to the US from Russia.
(15) And to put us in a situation where we are only ‘patriotic’ and only ‘heard’ if we actively take it upon ourselves to fight ‘terrorism’, as if we are responsible for these horrible acts, or by sending us to wars killing other Muslims, is also a problematic discourse.” While on guard near the Iraqi city of Baqubah in 2004, the 27-year-old Humayun Khan ran towards a suicide bomb vehicle that was headed in the direction of a mess hall where hundreds of servicemen were eating.
(16) While the reshuffle may be partly to appease fans who resent his position as a figurehead, it could also be seen as a tacit admission that Ashley got a big football decision horribly wrong last season, in deciding not to replace Alan Pardew and almost suffering relegation as a result.
(17) If he asked you to do something horrible, it was par for the course.
(18) They’ve just ransacked the house, it’s horrible, it’s terrible,” said Melissa Mill.
(19) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
(20) But it's also valuable to feel horrible about the government."
Unsightly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While restricting treatments of limited clinical value – such as operations to remove unsightly skin – is uncontroversial, reducing patients' access to drugs, district nurses, health visitors or forms of surgery they need to end their pain arouses huge concern.
(2) The collection of food around the lips during meals is an example of a little discussed but embarrassing and unsightly problem commonly experienced after a stroke.
(3) At the same time, it can also be used to eliminate dark circles around the eyes, blend in skin grafts, and mask unsightly blemishes.
(4) Paradoxically, the skin, positioned at the interface between the organism and its environment, embodies the visible envelope that surrounds pleasingly restructured muscle groups; at the same time it exhibits unsightly lesions produced as a consequence of the fitness program.
(5) Volume enhancement was effective in most cases, there being a significant reduction in the degree of recession of the prosthesis and the depth of the unsightly sunken sulci of the upper and lower lids.
(6) Dorsal digital burn contractures cause unsightly eponychial retraction and proximal nail exposure.
(7) The major concern is usually the unsightly appearance of the veins.
(8) Unsightly - and sometimes alarming - as these blemishes are, they must not distract from the reality that the House will do something historic if it listens to the advice of Barack Obama and passes legislation that remains more ambitious than anything he promised on the campaign trail.
(9) Evisceration may be indicated in patients with blind and unsightly or painful eyes and in selected instances of ocular trauma following discussion of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia with the patient.
(10) Cesc Fàbregas threaded a pass into Costa’s stride and although the angle was difficult on the left side of the area, the use of Michael Dawson as a shield to unsight McGregor, and the accuracy of the curling effort combined for his 19th league goal of the season.
(11) Three patients developed unsightly conjunctival telangiectasia, 2 patients developed a persistent scleral ulcer and 2 patients developed clinically significant cataracts.
(12) This resulted in delayed healing and unsightly scars.
(13) Conventional closure of surgical defects in skin may cause unsightly protrusions (dog ears).
(14) The vertical skin incision leaves an unsightly scar for many female patients.
(15) Treatment usually consists of routine stripping of the main trunks and excision of all distal tributaries, resulting in many unsightly scars.
(16) In the 67th minute, Sunderland, picking up a head of steam from their intense following, equalised as Fabio Borini was found by Patrick van Aanholt’s neat pass and scored from just inside the area with a shot that Thibaut Courtois, unsighted by Terry, could only help into his own net.
(17) Unfortunately, unsutured punch grafts tend to cobblestone or rise-up in an unsightly manner.
(18) The need for early meticulous repair, so that unsightly scars and disfigurements may be prevented, cannot be overemphasized.
(19) It is a hairless, yellowish-red plaque until puberty when it becomes verrucous and unsightly.
(20) However, liposuction is a procedure that requires conservatism because overzealous fat removal can generally leave unsightly permanent sequelae.