as in dreadfulness
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Recent Examples of terribleness
Catullus’s work shows us ourselves, in all our three-dimensional goodness and terribleness, and sometimes this vision, in 2025, comes as a fun vindication.
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Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terribleness
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The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.—
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There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.—
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Consider the beauty of singing to kids compared to the ugliness of Agent Ross.—
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There has never been any ugliness between any of us.—
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“Terribleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terribleness. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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