Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
Dreadfully.
A shocking or sensational crime.
A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating.
Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
With the front of a vehicle.
With direct confrontation.
A collision from the front.