frightfulness
Example Sentences
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The official German policy against civilians was described as Schrecklichkeit — frightfulness.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
But “Home” is a tonic for the mind, a lovely, lyrical distraction from the frightfulness of the news that had me looking at my surroundings more tenderly when I returned home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
I am not so foolish as to imagine the Government suddenly has lost its capacity for provoking popular resentment and then punishing with frightfulness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation in its full frightfulness.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see no reason for inflicting upon you a detailed description of the next fifteen holes of golfing frightfulness.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
