as in dreadfulness
the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay
horror films that seem to be trying to outdo one another in the repulsiveness of their monsters
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Noun
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He wasn’t primarily associated with one genre the way Argento was with horror or Sergio Leone was with Westerns.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
24 Mar. 2026 -
From the palace steps, Her Majesty watched with horror as the whirlwind of the helicopter's blades flattened her flowers and left divots on the lawn.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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Many of these songs have unfortunately become more relevant today, with the atrocities committed against innocent civilians in conflicts around the world, to the extrajudicial killing of Americans at home.—
Christina Hioureas,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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But this out-of-time music comes to us when the natural world is deteriorating and the ever-present internet is a tool of mass surveillance and a lens to witness multiple global atrocities at once.—
Vrinda Jagota,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Perhaps its incorporation of vogue ideas dazzles critics who might otherwise discern its awfulness (Amazon’s Transparent).—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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There is no way to sugarcoat the awfulness of those months of anxiety.—
Kate Callen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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No amount of gore or ghastliness is off limits for the series, produced by horror champions Blumhouse, as Nicole Kidman's titular medical examiner pores over the remains of the dead.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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What makes your own skin crawl isn’t just the hideousness of the violence but the unblinking matter-of-factness with which DaCosta films it.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Repulsiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repulsiveness. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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