A quality of extreme unpleasantness.
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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 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.
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.
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 .
6 Everyone, including the narrator, is consumed by avarice: it is an extravaganza of dreadfulness .
7 The dreadfulness and unexpectedness of this catastrophe occupied me wholly.
8 Perhaps things of this kind will be manageable without dreadfulness .
9 There was a corresponding feeling of horror and the dreadfulness of war on both sides.
10 There had been barely a glance between us to betoken the dreadfulness of the moment.
11 Wrath fled from her knitted brows; her eyes dropping to the girl, lost their dreadfulness ; softened.
12 People remarked on the dreadfulness of the event.
13 No traits of chivalrous generosity are told of him, nothing that softens the dreadfulness of war.
14 By the discovering the dreadfulness of such a condition, and how hazardous it is to continue therein.
15 The increased dreadfulness of war due to modern weapons is, however, only one consequence of their development.
16 I see no darkness here, no dreadfulness .
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