teterrimous

comparative more teterrimous · superlative most teterrimous

1. rareExtremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.

   Captain Magan, the teterrimous occasion of the wars of the week, enters battle in a red shirt!

   1854, Edward Michael Whitty, The Derbyites and the Coalition: Parliamentary Sketches, Trübner & Co, page 128

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   Halliford Bridge was washed away some years ago by the floods; and now the Surrey and Middlesex shores are connected by a brick and iron structure which is named Walton Bridge, and which, being the teterrimous cause of war between Bumbledon on both sides the river, was painted of two colours, a chromatic difference that greatly increased the normal ugliness of the design.

   1885, The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea, Gresham Books Limited, published 1983, →ISBN, page 194

   On the very edge of sight the teterrimous mountains, huge, made of brass, scaling the dark heavens, rimmed with blue flames.

   2009, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, The Choir Boats, Chizine Publications, published 2012, →ISBN