Meanings
comparative more horrorsome · superlative most horrorsome
- Characterised or marked by horror.
There are monsters and creatures with horrorsome features / And shapes to drive men to insanity.
2001, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Macintyre's Improbable Bestiary1 more example
[...] the merciless massacres, plunders, outrages, rapes and abductions perpetrated by Islamic terrorists in India and in its frontiers for almost a thousand years stand as glaring examples of despicable and horrorsome human depravity, which extends to the twentyfirst century through Pakistan and its terrorist groups with more ferocity and terrific cruelty.
2003, Mahendra Narayan Behera, Brownstudy on Heathenland
Origin
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