horror of horrors
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Volumes would barely suffice to recount the varied horrors of horrors of this disastrous insurrection, where the worst passions of human nature were brought to the aid of the infernal work of destruction."
- ""He posed as the horror of horrors — a misunderstood man. Heaven knows the femme incomprise is sad enough and bad enough — but the other thing!""
- "To foreign eyes it is a sight, once seen, never to be forgotten — a horror of horrors."
- "In a nutshell, the horror of horrors is that we become less able and available for good relationships, works, wonder, and worship than what we could be."
- "Horror of horrors! within a stair or two beneath the spot where I stood the unearthly tread smote the floor."
- "I wrestled with the wheel, snaked her out of the skid after spinning round and then - horror of horrors - a rear wheel struck a soft verge, the car overturned and there was I, semi-conscious but, as far as I can recall, in no acute pain."