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A quality of extreme unpleasantness
Answer for the clue "A quality of extreme unpleasantness ", 12 letters:
terribleness
Word definitions for terribleness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness , dreadfulness , horridness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being terrible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terrible \Ter"ri*ble\, a. [F., fr. L. terribilis, fr. terrere to frighten. See Terror .] Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. --Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the ...
Usage examples of terribleness.
And it was all therethe strangeness, the terribleness, of this wilf ride of a man on the back of a blue-tinted beastlike being that hated himand knew about the ship.
One dares not speak of terribleness, or brutality here, for fear of injecting value judgments into the narrative.