horridness

It was just the horridness of the other girls!

As soon as they left her there the horridness began.

"And now about the rudeness and horridness," said William.

I believe you're capable of any horridness.

The truth of everything was so simple in its horridness; so dreadfully simple.

He was very sober now, and the depths to which he had sunk were revealed to him in all their appalling horridness.

Cicero still read this work (Tuscini. 3.54); and, being rather thick-skinned in these matters, did not feel the horridness of the situation.

I was horrid to you; I know it, and I feel perfectly miserable at my horridness.

Or would have been had Gemma not insisted on remaining in the very centre of so much decay and corruption and"horridness', in Frizingley.

With them it is the horridness of revenge, but with your army it is a still greater crime, the horridness of diversion.

The use of horror films to help audiences understand international prior historical events occurs, for example, to show the horridness of the Vietnam war, the Holocaust and the worldwide AIDS epidemic.

She consistently justifies her horridness with a kind of philosophizing that leaves the reader trapped in her own crippling self-justification: "Inside, I am mostly built out of remorse, but no one can manage the weight of that, not constantly."