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UK
/hˈɒɹɪd/
]
[ US /ˈhɔɹəd/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
subjected to outrageous cruelty
horrific conditions in the mining industry
a hideous pattern of injustice -
exceedingly bad
when she was bad she was horrid
How To Use horrid In A Sentence
- Brady uses this horrid incident as a Rosebud inspiration for a life of flurry and accomplishment, but this is pure speculation.
- He waits eagerly for people to recognise him in the street, and sometimes they do, and tell him off for being so horrid and mean. Times, Sunday Times
- In old Mauritania, now Marocco,384 the Moors proper are notable sodomites; Moslems, even of saintly houses, are permitted openly to keep catamites, nor do their disciples think worse of their sanctity for such licence: in one case the English wife failed to banish from the home “that horrid boy.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Never be tempted to use hairspray: it looks naff, smells horrid and your date will get an unpleasant surprise if they touch your hair.
- And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid. The Night Land
- It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment.
- I feel grim and horrid, but it's a cold and I will recover.
- In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back.
- It was extremely unsatisfying and while it didn't spoil the good parts of the movie leading up to it, it sure put a horrid taste in my mouth as I finished watching it.
- Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken.