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  • adverb In a horrifying manner

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  • adverb in a horrifying manner

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Examples

  • I say "horrifyingly" because the poem steadily devolves into lines stretching twenty-one, then twenty two syllables, climaxing with what might be the longest line in the history of English poetry, a twenty-three syllable behemoth that reads like a line from the Fox News pledge of allegiance (and you know they have one).

    John Lundberg: Mike Huckabee's Very Bad Poem 2009

  • This makes for a horrifyingly effective -- and surprisingly funny -- gothic tale at first but as the narrator brings us into his world with his wandering, stuffed sentences, the novel begins to linguistically unravel into the swarm hinted at in the title.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011

  • After starting with a horrifyingly robotic recitation of his resume exactly as he's said in every debate, the former Utah governor took us on an intriguing tour of his thinking on a range of issues.

    Our Un-Presidential Debates Daniel Henninger 2011

  • That this is a thread about Rove and that you are a poser, or (horrifyingly) you really are this inept of a tea bagger.

    Think Progress » Rove Backs Off His Criticism Of Counterterrorism Center, Perhaps Remembering Chief Is A Bush Holdover 2010

  • After starting with a horrifyingly robotic recitation of his resume exactly as he's said in every debate, the former Utah governor took us on an intriguing tour of his thinking on a range of issues.

    Our Un-Presidential Debates Daniel Henninger 2011

  • I must burn those bridges; I will crush the ideas, drive them before me, and hear the lamentations of their women, because there is something more important out there: someone on the internet tried out the product called, horrifyingly, My New Pink Button, the temporary genital dye that I first heard about over on the PPK, but sourced back to Jezebel.

    pink my vulva « paper fruit 2010

  • It seems that the unemployment report due in about 20 minutes will be horrifyingly bad.

    Matthew Yglesias » Cutting the Stimulus 2009

  • This makes for a horrifyingly effective -- and surprisingly funny -- gothic tale at first but as the narrator brings us into his world with his wandering, stuffed sentences, the novel begins to linguistically unravel into the swarm hinted at in the title.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011

  • I must burn those bridges; I will crush the ideas, drive them before me, and hear the lamentations of their women, because there is something more important out there: someone on the internet tried out the product called, horrifyingly, My New Pink Button, the temporary genital dye that I first heard about over on the PPK, but sourced back to Jezebel.

    2010 January « paper fruit 2010

  • That drug, at least, is horrifyingly powerful in its ability to literally change the person's moral center.

    Drug Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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