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- adjective
comparative form ofhorrible : morehorrible
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Examples
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So horrible heat to get horribler, horrible virus getting horribler, not all the mail answered, what else is new?
Looking in karenmiller 2009
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Fear this, fear that, the monster is waiting for you, it's going to be horribler, quick .. do nothing before change gets you!
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The Prophet's deceptive claim that his brow is illuminatingly holy indicates that hidden countenances are not entirely trustworthy; beneath his veil lurk "features horribler than Hell e'er trac'd/On its own brood" (90).
Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000
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It was the most dismal place I ever beheld, and seemed to me to grow horribler every moment I looked at it: drowning in that deep, dark, wicked-looking whirlpool would be hideous, compared to being dashed to death amid the dazzling spray and triumphant thunder of Niagara.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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Methodism; our Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven - high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.
MVN 2009
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He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.
MVN 2009
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He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.
MVN 2009
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This year has basically been a lost campaign for him, horrible numbers in AAA and horribler numbers in his brief stints in the majors, and while he'll keep getting occasional chances on a team that's going nowhere, we won't be counting on him for much in 2009
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