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Meanings of horridness in English
Synonyms
Examples for "awfulness"
Examples for "awfulness"
1
Benita shuddered; the solemn awfulness of the place and scene oppressed her.
2
Her voice was reverent; the awfulness of the heavens had humbled her.
3
She shuddered at the awfulness of it and backed the canoe out.
4
The awfulness of the phenomenon is that nobody knows anything about it.
5
That was what made the thing stand out in its sheer awfulness.
1
It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness.
2
You think that you have quite conquered the dreadfulness of our origin.
3
There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party.
4
Despite the dreadfulness of the situation, they felt lucky to have each other.
5
For the first time he saw them in all their dreadfulness.
1
Already their import had become familiar enough to lose that first terribleness.
2
The vast spectral terribleness is quickly transformed into a scene of indescribable loveliness.
3
I must be losing my terribleness for them, I thought.
4
We feel powerless in the face of what feels like an onslaught of terribleness.
5
The terribleness of the sight painted the honest anxiety for the woman on his face.
Usage of horridness in English
1
But the unrelenting, clanking horridness of virtually all the backing is wearing.
2
The truth of everything was so simple in its horridness; so dreadfully simple.
3
You don't know how often I've thought all sorts of horridness about you.
4
Sentimentality decorates and disguises all kinds of horridness and makes us feel kindly toward evil.
5
And there rose up a roar from them that did nigh slay my soul with the horridness of the noise.
6
With them it is the horridness of revenge, but with your army it is a still greater crime, the horridness of diversion.
7
The horridness I speak of does not attach to him personally, but to his stiff, respectable, ungainly, well-behaved, irrational, and uncivilised country.
8
Once the throbbing stopped, and the numbness settled on her flesh like a warm blanket, her mind rationalized the horridness of the situation.
9
"I don't see anything but dirt and horridness, Grandfather," complained Ethel Brown.
10
"It isn't really horridness," Elisabeth explained meekly; "it is interest.
11
"There's a vulgar horridness about it," said Lucy.
12
But the unrelenting, clanking horridness of virtually all the backing is wearing.
13
The truth of everything was so simple in its horridness; so dreadfully simple.
14
You don't know how often I've thought all sorts of horridness about you.
15
Sentimentality decorates and disguises all kinds of horridness and makes us feel kindly toward evil.
16
And there rose up a roar from them that did nigh slay my soul with the horridness of the noise.
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Horridness through the time