Sentence examples for less horrendous from inspiring English sources

I would like to find a less horrendous equivalent.

Staff smile, chat a bit, make life marginally less horrendous.

After sending in six or eight progressively less horrendous puzzles I finally got the Crossword-Yes! email.

Departure from the euro would be less horrendous than staying in, Mr Roubini said on the margins of an Ambrosetti workshop in Cernobbio, on the shore of Italy's Lake Como, last March.

They had invested so much emotional capital in the higher figure that, instead of rejoicing that 3,000 people presumed dead were in fact alive, they feared that the disaster might now seem less horrendous.

Events in recently annexed Austria were no less horrendous.

On the whole, after all the necessary reservations are made, he concludes that Europe ended the century in better shape than it began: more democratic, more prosperous and less violent.Two horrendous wars and economic depression are properly dealt with, but do not overshadow the rest of the story.

Others, such as Selma Mountford of the Brighton Society conservation group, are more measured in their views, but object no less firmly to "this horrendous thing in the sky".

It is unclear how he can visit cuts and privations on disabled people and parents of disabled people who – unlike him – lack the funds to make that heartbreaking and horrendous situation less of a practical struggle.

The detail, horrendous though it is, matters less to me than Labour's willingness to destroy libel reform.

Even the smallest airports in China are better than La Guardia, and you can just forget about J.F.K. My second choice is a little less important, maybe, but the cabdrivers here are horrendous, and something needs to be done.