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• s  provoking horror
  a frightful crime of decapitation
• s  extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
  in a frightful hurry
  spent a frightful amount of money
• s  extremely distressing
  a frightful mistake

• The organizers asked Sieber if he might get back to them with less frightful scenarios threats better scaled to the Games they intended to stage.
• Last week the agreement fell through, threatening what to Rome is that most frightful of events: schism.
• The weather outside is frightful, but video games are delightful.

• atrocious
• horrifying
• horrible
• ugly
• terrible
• awful
• tremendous
• fearful

News & Articles

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• A "Chemical Safety" Bill That Everyone Should Oppose
  A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate numbered S. 1009, called the “Chemical Safety Improvement Act,” is a proposal to supposedly “modernize” and “update” federal law governing the regulation of toxic substances such as formaldehyde, asbestos and lead. But this 127-page bill gives new and frightful powers to the EPA to strangle economic growth and the constitutional rights of average Americans ...
  June 6, 2013 - Injury Board

Quotes

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• Russ Feingold in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
  This is an opportunity for people to say, let's at least reflect on the record that something terrible has happened here,said Feingold, D-Wis. "This administration has weakened America in a way that is frightful."
• Britney Spears in FOXNews
  Spears said she did it because of a "horrifying, frightful encounter with the paparazzi."
• Fernando Saenz Lacalle in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle called the killings at the height of the country's 1980-92 civil war "a frightful crime," but said he was sure that former President Alfredo Cristiani was not involved.