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  • adjective comparative form of horrible: more horrible

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Examples

  • So horrible heat to get horribler, horrible virus getting horribler, not all the mail answered, what else is new?

    Looking in karenmiller 2009

  • Fear this, fear that, the monster is waiting for you, it's going to be horribler, quick .. do nothing before change gets you!

    Republicans warn of rationing for disabled children 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.

    MVN 2009

  • He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.

    MVN 2009

  • He's at best an average-fielding CF, with an arm horribler than his baserunning is good.

    MVN 2009

  • 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

    Major League Baseball 2008

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