horrify

That could melt down world financial markets and horrify his already disgruntled allies in Europe, Asia and the Gulf.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

The mode of transportation is an especially good opportunity for parents to horrify their teenagers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

These writings may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

What horrifies her is a sense that “the law is something to be inflicted,” and therefore inherently cruel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

"It horrifies me it should anger all of us," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

“All those dissidents going into Lefortovo — the name horrifies you,” she said in an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” that aired early on Wednesday.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

The idea “that we’re supposed to save the flowers and the chocolates and the poems and the songs for the One” horrifies her.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022

The thought of spending whatever remains of my life in this stone vault horrifies me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Notice how horrified we are when women DON’T shave their pits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Telemachus is horrified that a boy would murder his own mother, but Menelaus sets him straight.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Residents and wild swimmers were horrified to find them washed up on Saturday, appearing to gasp for air, in the River Wensum through Norwich.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

I checked my teeth in the visor mirror and was immediately horrified by thick saggy jowls, eye bags and liver spots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Larisa flew on toward those lights, horrified and terrified.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

It could be a pretty boring, sometimes horrifying process — I’ll never forget the thrash metal song we received about Shannen Doherty that sounded like it was recorded in a blender.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

“I find that despite the onslaught of these horrifying headlines … taking action invigorates me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

And it’s generally OK to warn people if a movie features some truly horrifying graphic violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Cleveland's Chief Constable Victoria Fuller said what we'd heard was "horrifying".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

I could see him as I approached: His hair was parted neatly on the left side in a way that he would have found absolutely horrifying, and his face was plasticized.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green