(a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
(a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
(2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(3) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(4) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(5) We have to balance the risk posed to the environment by DDT with the terrible impact this virus is having on the unborn.” Britain is unlikely to be affected because Aedes aegypti cannot survive the cold of UK winters.
(6) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(7) I myself spent years – years – in a terrible kind of politically correct phase where I travelled to Nicaragua and called it “Niquragua” to observe the Sandinista revolution firsthand.
(8) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
(9) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
(10) One of the terrible ironies of the Iraq War is that President Bush used the threat of nuclear terrorism to invade a country that had no active nuclear program.
(11) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(12) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
(13) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
(14) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
(15) The experience of his wife's prolonged and terrible illness had not changed his mind, Inge said, but had made him understand, "at a heart and gut level" what the implications of a law on assisted suicide would be.
(16) This time he looked like a nodding dog in the back of a car that's been in a terrible crash.
(17) Michaels' Ms brainwave did not take root as quickly as she hoped - "It was terribly frustrating, because no one wanted to hear about it.
(18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
(19) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(20) This is a terrible government, and the Tories are deeply divided.
Terrifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Terrify
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
(2) The woman who had lost her husband and son had another son, 20 years old, and she was terrified.
(3) "I find that terrifying frankly; safety comes from being in a team.
(4) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(5) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(6) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
(7) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(8) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
(9) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(10) Chained and terrified, she made her choice and lied.
(11) I lived through terrifying moments during the steepest of my professional learning curves and was perpetually sleep-deprived.
(12) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
(13) This is legitimately terrifying.” Several commentators compared Comey’s sudden sacking with the 1973 “Saturday night massacre” when President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to look into the Watergate affair.
(14) I’d have hated to hear that Russell had been dragged, terrified, to his death.
(15) A Peta statement added: "We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.
(16) So, to summarise, Shorten and his speechwriting team looked out into the mildly terrifying and endlessly fracturing political landscape of January 2017 and concluded that politics had to be personal.
(17) Meanwhile the Dublin government, terrified of the impact that a UK withdrawal could have on its own economy, has warned darkly of immigration and custom posts returning.
(18) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
(19) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
(20) It wasn't that the drinking was great, but I was so terrified of not drinking.