A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey
The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
2001, Neil K. Komesar, Laws Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights''
Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:(..)it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
(quote-book)|author=(w)|comment=The New Yorker, March 19
Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.