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horrible in English:

1. horror


Tom doesn't like horror movies.
Words cannot describe the horror I experienced.
A scary horror movie is only a movie. Once you turn off the screen it's all over, but life...you're stuck in it.
Just picture to yourself the horror with which I saw the scene.
His story thrilled me with horror.
This horror movie is really scary. I couldn't sleep after I watched it.
Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.
To my horror...
She screamed with horror as someone took hold of her arm.
Horror movies frighten me.
To my horror, the man took a gun out of his pocket.
Since children are more scared than amused by clowns, I wonder if some comedy trope of ours will become horror fodder in 100 years.
War has taken away our happiness and replaced it with horror.
As soon as I got there; I went to my hotel; opened my suitcase; and to my horror realized that it wasn’t mine.

English word "horrible"(horror) occurs in sets:

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2. very unpleasant or bad



English word "horrible"(very unpleasant or bad) occurs in sets:

Synonyms for the adjective "bad"
Synonyms for the adjective "bad"

3. Gruesome


When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.
Any murder is gruesome but this one was especially heinous.

English word "horrible"(Gruesome) occurs in sets:

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4. terrible


That's terrible.
Tom can write almost like a native speaker, but his pronunciation is terrible.
Suddenly, there was a period of terrible violence and hatred between blacks and whites.
Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
In the restaurant we were yesterday evening, we had to wait two hours before ordering. What a terrible establishment!
Mariela had a terrible time with her college advisors, who were worse at keeping her schedule together than she herself was.
You've been camping out ever since you came over here? Must have been terrible.
One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!
I'm in a terrible hurry... for reasons I can't say, Dima replied to the woman. "Please, just let me try on that suit there."
Even though you came to the movie theater to see the movie, you fell asleep. That's terrible.
Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.
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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
I haven't seen anyone that enjoyed a better life than his, even though his living conditions were terrible.

5. lousy


What lousy weather!
I expect it's his lousy personality that drives off the ladies.
The lousy creature was chewing my notes
That was a lousy thing to do./lousy weather
very poor or bad. "the service is usually lousy." awful, terrible, appalling, very bad, atrocious, desperate, unspeakable, frightful, miserable
after eighteen, I feel lousy
The lousy movie was unable to hold my attention for more than 20 minutes
lousy food/service
I'm going to get rid of this lousy phone. It stopped working while I was talking to my boss!
to feel lousy
All he offered me was a lousy £20. You're a lousy poker player, Foletta.
Of course that's before she got the lousy face-lift.
You look lousy, doll.
Six months later, I was in a lousy relationship with another man.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

6. lovely


What lovely flowers!
America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money.
Japan, for the most part, is a lovely place to live.
He hit the jackpot with his date. She was lovely and intelligent.
Here, if the weather's good, you can get a lovely view.
The trees that line the street have lovely blossoms in spring.
Your lovely voice was very pleasant to my ears.
It is really lovely to go up Mt. Hakodate and look at the night view of Hakodate city.
Don't forget to give my best regards to your lovely wife.
Chris cannot control his passion for the lovely new girl in town.
Whenever we have such lovely rain, I recall the two of us, several years ago.
Jane is fat and rude, and smokes too much. However, Ken thinks she's lovely and charming. That's why they say love is blind.
The building is built of marble of a most lovely color.
What a glorious fall day. This is what they mean by the lovely weather you get after a storm.
When he first heard her lovely voice over the phone, he fell head over heels for her.

7. very ugly



8. ugly


He's so ugly.
This snake is not ugly, it's you who can't see its beauty.
That's an ugly building, in my opinion.
An ugly man knocked on my door.
Would you go out with an ugly person, or do you think personality matters more?
An ugly duckling became a graceful swan.
What should we do with this white elephant your aunt gave us? It's way too ugly to go on the wall.
That picture doesn't seem ugly to me; on the contrary, I think it's rather beautiful.
If the weather is beautiful, if it is ugly, it is my habit to go at 5 in the evening to walk at Palais-Royal.
That ugly butcher resembles that fictional monster.
It's ugly, bright yellow and it doesn't go with anything. But at least you won't get run over in the dark!
There were ugly scenes outside the stadium.
It was an ugly animal with a fat body and short legs.
Kraków is a beautiful city. Katowice is an ugly city.
You have a very ugly mop near the window.

English word "horrible"(ugly) occurs in sets:

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9. abominable


an abominable noise
Her behaviour was abominable.
The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
The weather's been abominable all week.
The abominable snowman is a Himalayan monster.