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21Houtain, George Julian — (1884–1945) amateur journalist (President of the NAPA, 1915–17) who edited The Zenithand wrote a brief article, “20 Webster Street: Lovecraft,” in the January 1921 issue (rpt. LR) after meeting HPL at an amateur convention in Boston in July …
22frightful — a. Terrible, terrific, fearful, alarming, dread, dreadful, direful, dire, horrid, horrible, awful, shocking, hideous, ghastly, grim, grisly, grewsome or gruesome …
23terrible — a. 1. Frightful, horrible, dreadful, formidable, fearful, terrific, dire, tremendous, shocking, grewsome, horrid, hideous. 2. Awful, awe inspiring, dreadful, dread. 3. (Colloq.) Excessive, extreme, severe, great …
24ugly — a. 1. Unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill looking, ill favored, unprepossessing, uncomely, unlovely. 2. Frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, grewsome, loathsome, monstrous. 3. Cross, ill tempered, cross grained, spiteful …
25gruesome — [16] The novels of Sir Walter Scott had an enormous influence in introducing Scotticisms into the general English language, and gruesome is a case in point. It was apparently coined in the 16th century from an earlier verb grue ‘be terrified’,… …
26grue´some|ness — grue|some «GROO suhm», adjective. 1. causing fear or horror; horrible; frightful; revolting: »The dim, mysterious half light of the cellar falling in a gruesome way upon the misshapen bulk of a Chinese deity (Bret Harte). SYNONYM(S): grisly. 2.… …
27grue´some|ly — grue|some «GROO suhm», adjective. 1. causing fear or horror; horrible; frightful; revolting: »The dim, mysterious half light of the cellar falling in a gruesome way upon the misshapen bulk of a Chinese deity (Bret Harte). SYNONYM(S): grisly. 2.… …
28grue|some — «GROO suhm», adjective. 1. causing fear or horror; horrible; frightful; revolting: »The dim, mysterious half light of the cellar falling in a gruesome way upon the misshapen bulk of a Chinese deity (Bret Harte). SYNONYM(S): grisly. 2. Scottish …
