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horrifying

 adjective
     
hor‧ri‧fy‧ing
extremely bad, especially in a way that is frightening or upsetting [= horrific]:
murder, rape and other horrifying crimes
It's horrifying to see how much poverty there is here.
—horrifyingly adverb
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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