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  • adjective comparative form of frightful: more frightful

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frightful +‎ -er

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Examples

  • So that, when question is made of certain massacres in which he was implicated, we are calmly told "that some men have tasks frightfuller than ours."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • But Fritz kept at it and was happy as a bird, till one day we woke up an 'started bein' frightful too, only when we did begin we were frightfuller than ever Fritz thought of bein '-- yes, rather!

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • That were a darker and direfuller destiny, that were a fearfuller, frightfuller fate.

    The Re-echo Club Carolyn Wells 1902

  • That were a darker and direfuller destiny, that were a fearfuller, frightfuller fate!

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • For were it known, and surely the happening of it would be known, that Dudley Sowerby had shaken off the Nesta of no name, who was the abominable Mrs. Marsett's friend, a whirlwind with a trumpet would sweep them into the wilderness on a blast frightfuller than any ever heard.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • Dudley Sowerby had shaken off the Nesta of no name, who was the abominable Mrs. Marsett's friend, a whirlwind with a trumpet would sweep them into the wilderness on a blast frightfuller than any ever heard.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • For were it known, and surely the happening of it would be known, that Dudley Sowerby had shaken off the Nesta of no name, who was the abominable Mrs. Marsett's friend, a whirlwind with a trumpet would sweep them into the wilderness on a blast frightfuller than any ever heard.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Whereupon you must try fusillading; to which perhaps still frightfuller methods may succeed.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • No frightfuller Law ever ruled in a Nation of men.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • O woe! they are all with cub, and are come here to whelp: new brutes keep sprouting out of the old ones, and the child is always wilder and frightfuller than its dam.

    The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

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