horribles

English

Noun

horribles

1. plural of horrible
   • 2005, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot, page 125:

     If it does not appeal to you as one of the horribles in life, try it once.

   • 2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, page 240:

     For all the horribles that his legs and feet endured, they weren't the root cause of his suffering.

   • 2003, Christopher Chambers, A Prayer for Deliverance: An Angela Bivens Thriller, page 772:

     There're tangible horribles out there, honey.

   • 2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights, page 51:

     Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

   • 1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey, page 1:

     The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

   • 1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, page 70:

     A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

   • 1976, Otis L. Graham, Jr., Toward a Planned Society: from Roosevelt to Nixon, page 62:

     Congressmen talked of tyranny, and other imaginary horribles, and one vigilant member opposed the six administrative assistants on the ground that they would be "theoretical intellectualprofessorial nincompoops."

   • 1906, Ernest Way Elkington, Adrift in New Zealand, page 241:

     I always like to get over the horribles first, so that the good things of life may leave the last impression.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!

Derived terms

• parade of horribles

Asturian

Adjective

horribles

1. plural of horrible

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [uˈrib.bləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈri.bles]

Adjective

horribles

1. plural of horrible

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁibl/

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Adjective

horribles

1. plural of horrible

Galician

Adjective

horribles

1. plural of horrible

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈribles/ [oˈri.β̞les]
• Rhymes: -ibles
• Syllabification: ho‧rri‧bles

Adjective

horribles

1. plural of horrible