"hair-curling" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hair-curling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hair-curling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943 March 14, Arthur Otis, “Belden Pens a Hair-Curling Story of Disaster in Burma”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 2010-11-09, page F10",
          "text": "But, first and foremost, \"Retreat with Stilwell\" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February 7, Lewis Nichols, “In and Out of Books”, in New York Times, page BR8",
          "text": "Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976 July 18, Eugene Patterson, “They're not saying ‘Jimmy Who?’”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2010-11-09",
          "text": "[T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 7, J. Gibson, E. Tadros, “A touch of nostalgia up for grabs”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2010-11-09",
          "text": "If the walls . . . could talk, they would reveal some hair-curling secrets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying."
      ],
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        [
          "Exciting",
          "exciting"
        ],
        [
          "astonish",
          "astonish"
        ],
        [
          "frighten",
          "frighten"
        ],
        [
          "horrify",
          "horrify"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "curl someone's hair"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hair-raising"
        },
        {
          "word": "hair curling"
        },
        {
          "word": "haircurling"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hair-curling"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hair-curling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hair-curling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "curl someone's hair"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1943 March 14, Arthur Otis, “Belden Pens a Hair-Curling Story of Disaster in Burma”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 2010-11-09, page F10",
          "text": "But, first and foremost, \"Retreat with Stilwell\" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February 7, Lewis Nichols, “In and Out of Books”, in New York Times, page BR8",
          "text": "Many of Mr. Dahl's stories are hair-curling tales of man's inhumanity to man, particularly woman's to man.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976 July 18, Eugene Patterson, “They're not saying ‘Jimmy Who?’”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2010-11-09",
          "text": "[T]he era of good feeling Carter has created in his party . . . could be a prelude to an activist presidency bent on shaking and changing the status quo with hair-curling audacity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 7, J. Gibson, E. Tadros, “A touch of nostalgia up for grabs”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2010-11-09",
          "text": "If the walls . . . could talk, they would reveal some hair-curling secrets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Exciting",
          "exciting"
        ],
        [
          "astonish",
          "astonish"
        ],
        [
          "frighten",
          "frighten"
        ],
        [
          "horrify",
          "horrify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hair-raising"
    },
    {
      "word": "hair curling"
    },
    {
      "word": "haircurling"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hair-curling"
}