Meanings (ES + gloss)
horrible • horroroso
Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family p…
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