Definition of "horribles"

If it does not appeal to you as one of the horribles in life, try it once.

2005, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, A Woman Tenderfoot, page 125

For all the horribles that his legs and feet endured, they weren't the root cause of his suffering.

2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, page 240

There're tangible horribles out there, honey.

2003, Christopher Chambers, A Prayer for Deliverance: An Angela Bivens Thriller, page 772

Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.

2001, Neil K. Komesar, Law's Limits: The Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights, page 51

The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.

1991, Alastair Scott, Tracks Across Alaska: A Dog Sled Journey, page 1

A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.

1982, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, page 70

Congressmen talked of tyranny, and other imaginary horribles, and one vigilant member opposed the six administrative assistants on the ground that they would be "theoretical intellectualprofessorial nincompoops."

1976, Otis L. Graham, Jr., Toward a Planned Society: from Roosevelt to Nixon, page 62

I always like to get over the horribles first, so that the good things of life may leave the last impression.

1906, Ernest Way Elkington, Adrift in New Zealand, page 241

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!

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley