frightmare

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone or something extremely unattractive.

   • Try and stick to only a few decorative elements, not a 'more is more' frightmare.
   • It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes.
   • 'A cuddly six and a half. Yummier than that Wednesday Addams lookalike Günter's also taken on. Frightmare or what?'
2. 2

   An extremely unpleasant and frightening experience.

   • Yes, that must have been the way it had happened, Gibby decided — just one long frightmare, part of it filmed in this bedroom.
   • Wednesday morning, Jamie was pacing back and forth in the small kitchen when she decided that she didn't want to be alone after last night's frightmare.
   • I sure hope so, I think nervously—because between my too tight costume, this too tight dressing room, and High Priestess Abala's too spooky Vampire Spell, this whole thing is turning into a New York frightmare!

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