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adj. - Extremely alarming.

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  • A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied.
  • NELSON Piquet Jr, the driver at the centre of "Crashgate", has broken his silence over what he described as a nightmarish episode in his
  • Please aliens come and pick me back home. .living on earth is friggin nightmarish in its surrealism.
  • I kept nightmarishly detailed diaries all through my teens, those years that you REALLY do not want to remember in nightmarish detail.
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