Mark Billingham

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

English Novelist

Natasia Demetriou

I only use Tinder to have horrible conversations with people. I accidentally liked this man on there and he sent me some really horrendous things. I was like, 'I'm gonna be even more horrendous.' I was by myself, having the time of my life. Then I felt slightly sick.

English Comedian

Clare Short

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

British Politician

Sidney Poitier

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

American Actor

Katharine Weymouth

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

American Publisher

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

British Composer

E. O. Wilson

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

American Scientist

Noam Chomsky

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

American Activist

John Oliver

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

British Comedian

Kimberly Bryant

I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.

Use 'horrendous' to emphasize the extreme negative nature of a situation or feeling.

Intensity Marker

'Horrendous' conveys a stronger negative emotion than simply 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.

Negativity Connotation

Reserve 'horrendous' for situations that are significantly distressing, not for minor inconveniences.

Not for Mild Issues

'Horrendous' describes something so bad it can cause fear, going beyond typical use of 'scary'.

Fear Association

When telling stories, use 'horrendous' to build tension and portray threatening situations.

Strength in Stories

'Horrendous' can shock or grab attention, making it effective in headlines or dramatic descriptions.

Shock Value

 She’d take one glance inside, then be able to rid her mind of it forever But at the first crack of the lid, the box burst open. Monstrous creatures and horrendous sounds rushed out in a cloud of smoke and swirled around her, screeching and cackling. Filled with terror,

The myth of Pandora’s...

 that are going through these nasty, nasty chemotherapy drugs, for them not to suffer through those horrendous side effects of the drugs when the drugs are in fact not even helping them. So to be frank here, we're pretty far away from winning the war against cancer,

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 some of the people that run the media the power of television news could not be demonstrated more clearly but there is a responsibility that goes with that power we fail in that responsibility if we do not report the often horrendous problems of development

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 developed countries and developing countries come together and co-create frugal solutions that benefit the entire humanity. The exciting news is that's starting to happen. Let's go to Nairobi to find that out. Nairobi has horrendous traffic jams.

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 Russia will do in all this mix there are horrendous possibilities here that's why we need to work very hard together to make sure that we take the possible good benefits out of this number one the understanding that the whole of humanity

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 Jeter after he'd broken his back on the trapeze but as I said by the time I joined the circus Dumbo was elderly and she had dreadful PMS she used to get horrendous hormonal moods and

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 tickets I think they smell horrendous say crystal you say your cat doesn't smell like anything when it's wet compared to a dog in my experience in the cats that I've had in my life

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 the nesting and they a lot of hard Frost's and torrential rain and it's just been horrendous we just lost probably about half the population of chicks this year

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 whilst all this is happening the last thing you need is to be short of breath all right ah our cheers voice I thought that is the most horrendous thing I've

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 it was like hectic everywhere in the mountains you can see these shanty houses that was just horrendous I've not seen that in my life and I thought