[ UK /hˈɒɹɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔɹəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
    subjected to outrageous cruelty
    horrific conditions in the mining industry
    a hideous pattern of injustice
  2. exceedingly bad
    when she was bad she was horrid
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How To Use horrid In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • But what caught her unawares was the horrid thing that by this fact of sudden, unexpected waking she had surprised these other things in the room, beside the very bed, gathered close about him while he slept. The Man Whom the Trees Loved
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