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  • adjective rare comparative form of terrible: more terrible

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Examples

  • Putting aside how pathetic it is to have "not terrible" as an economic standard to be satisfied with, it turns out things were, in fact, pretty terrible, and have remained terrible -- or even gotten terribler.

    Arianna Huffington: Third World America: One Year Later Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Putting aside how pathetic it is to have "not terrible" as an economic standard to be satisfied with, it turns out things were, in fact, pretty terrible, and have remained terrible -- or even gotten terribler.

    Arianna Huffington: Third World America: One Year Later Arianna Huffington 2011

  • Putting aside how pathetic it is to have "not terrible" as an economic standard to be satisfied with, it turns out things were, in fact, pretty terrible, and have remained terrible -- or even gotten terribler.

    Arianna Huffington: Third World America: One Year Later Arianna Huffington 2011

  • “Verily he hath endured hardships and horrors and passed through all manner mortal risks each terribler than other; yet hitherto he is not safe from death and from the cutting off of his breath.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Fetch me Hasan forthright, for I have granted him my safeguard and have spared him from my sabre and he hath sought asylum in my house and taken up his abode in my courts, after having endured hardships and horrors and passed through all manner mortal risks, each terribler than other; yet hitherto is he not safe from drinking the cup of death and from cutting off his breath.” —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "Verily he hath endured hardships and horrors and passed through all manner mortal risks each terribler than other; yet hitherto he is not safe from death and from the cutting off of his breath."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Nature, a far juster Sovereign, has far terribler forceps.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Perhaps all the terribler, the quieter and gentler he looks.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Perhaps all the terribler, the quieter and gentler he looks.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Putting aside how pathetic it is to have "not terrible" as an economic standard to be satisfied with, it turns out things were, in fact, pretty terrible, and have remained terrible -- or even gotten terribler.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Arianna Huffington 2011

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