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frightful

adjective as in horrible, offensive, or shocking

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Example Sentences

Walker said the conditions for such a catch are frightful.

She added it was "scarcely credible such a frightful pub exists in Cymru".

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The King, who has an occupational interest in signing things, looked at earlier versions of rolls on shiny parchment and said: "You'd have frightful difficulty signing on that."

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It’s a frightful and gargantuan performance that should come with a trigger warning.

When this frightful journey from Africa’s west coast was over, the survivors were usually delivered to the islands of Jamaica and Barbados or to Brazil, in South America.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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