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horrendously

adv. In a horrendous manner.

Usage examples of "horrendously".

Seeing that these splendors fascinated him, but their inaccessibility saddened him, I thought it was good to convince him that his suffering was not the worst, to tell him of the torment of Andronicus with such details that they far surpassed what had been done to him, of the massacres of Crema, of prisoners with a hand, an ear, the nose cut off, I brought before his eyes images of indescribable maladies compared to which leprosy was the lesser evil, I told him how horrendously horrible were scrofula, erysipelas, St.

It seemed to her that the consequences of her infertility were beginning to spiral into horrendously tragic proportions.

The reason that the American President, of all the chief officers in the world, was the only one that had a full company of guardian ACS was that they were horrendously expensive.

Though, plainly, she had been horrendously brutalized and, the medical examiner would conclude, most probably raped, an overnight thunderstorm and the rushing creek had conspired to frustrate investigators in their search for clues.

All the bizarre electronic paintings, sculptures, and geometrical jewel-forms were horrendously derivative and uninspired.

I had to make, and all the dignity I tried to assume was dispelled by the comical squish-squishing of my moist shoes, a sound horrendously amplified in this vaulted chamber.

He lit up upon hearing the ideas, but cautioned that he thought the calculations would be horrendously difficult.

Marietta's pallor drove guests to beat her breasts horrendously, desecrating her without pity, even using the cane on her areoles before leaving her to smoulder.

The exhaust would be hydrogen fluoride, horrendously corrosive stuff which will eat almost anything, including glass.

His shoes were big heavy Oxfords that looked horrendously heavy to Garraty (whose own feet were now bare, cold, and scraping raw).

The wolf became a giant tiger lily, snarling horrendously, but Bink was crushing its stem.