horror show
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A horror movie or television show or other performance which depicts gruesome, horrible, or disgusting events, especially in a vividly visual manner.
noun
A horrifying, appalling, or sickening experience, set of events, or visual spectacle.
Example Sentences
- "This is a horror show, unequivocally. But John J. Caswell Jr.’s “Wet Brain,” at Playwrights Horizons, is also a very funny, pitch-black comedy about addiction and obligation, love and abandonment, and patterns of poisonous behavior lodged so deep they seem encoded."
- "Colleen Fallscheer, a cheerful 40-year-old mother of two from Waterford, Mich., is living proof that breast-cancer therapy is not the horror show it used to be."
- "A good start, a strong finish, but it was a Scotland horror show in the middle as the team flirted with Rugby World Cup humiliation."
- "Survivors waded through a horror show of corpse-filled waters."