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.
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
If it were not for horrid sick people, I should like it. The Daisy Chain
I mean," said Sibyl, "that you have got to reward me for doing your horrid -- _horrid_, dirty work! Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School
Ai gottid teh horridwud floars a fyew yeers bak, an ai wanted jist a liddlol ‘speshul cuts.’ Did enneebuddee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Hifpidos agrcs vel fpicis ac fru - gibus maturis hlfpidos A hirfutot; vel poQus kyemis afpertate horridos ac deformes. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
Music: that horrid Canadian commercial about things in mouthes Saber-toothed gazelles and cliff shenanigans
In the sacristy is a horrid and appropriate image of the bad thief. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
Andy looked at her trying to keep a straight face but failed horridly as he laughed outright at her.
In some areas of Argentina, the Andean degraded caespitose (growing in dense tufts) herbaceous vegetation with open stands of dwarf shrubs includes Acantholippia hastulata, Adesmia horridiuscula, Baccharis incanum, Ephedra breana, Fabiana densa, Junellia seriphioides, Psila boliviensis, Senicio viridis, and Tetraglochin cristatum. Central Andean dry puna
Might I also mention Look2Me is a horrid, nearly unremovable, piece of spyware.
The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
So why not adapt a range of prohibition notices, all employing that horrid diagonal line struck across a circle? Times, Sunday Times
My fried zucchini were limp, horrid and oversalted. Times, Sunday Times
He intends to woo her perfectly, by telling her how lovely she is, when she looks shrewish, how beautifully she plays, when she makes horrid noises, and more.
There are warning labels galore, horrid pictures to boot on cigarette packages yet people still smoke. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
Goodness knows what horrid things he saw and I fear that there's no knowing the totality or the extent of the images that remained in his memories.
The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad.
Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth.
Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls. The Hawaiian Archipelago
It's one of those sexual tease jobs that involve a cornered woman in a night dress and a Peeping Tom psychopath; she's a psychiatrist, he's a garage mechanic and quite possibly a gay fruitcake who's killed (or "disabled" in the play's horrid vocabulary) a whole bunch of women before, and an Alfred Hitchcock-style "scopophiliac" to boot who likes watching women from a distance in various stages of undress. Undefined
She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities.
Since we see a passion for grammar everywhere, and we know that the discipline, because of the number of scholars that now exist, is now open to the worst students, it would be horrid thing not to write, even if we write only as we are able, and not as we should, about this glory of our time, or even to leave the story hidden in the scabbiness of artless speech. The Deeds of God Through the Franks
I'm sure someone will present me with some kind of horridly boring monotonous work any minute now.
I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about.
This horrid fat simpliton says that my Aunt is beautifull, which is intirely impossible, for that is not her nature. Stories of Childhood
Yes, much of the coffee in America is horrid and/or disgusting, but at least the possibility exists of finding decent coffee in America.
She and Wenyi also told us of the punishment workers receive for speaking out against their low pay and horrid working conditions, and the bogus factory inspections by Wal-Mart operatives whose arrival is announced to the management before they come to "inspect" the workplace. Kerry Candaele: Wal-Sprawl in China
The pulse was dragging him in, into that horrid rhythm, now dead, now living.
He did not direct his steps homeward, however, but resolved to ac-complish the horrid deed by suspending himself from a lamp-post in a dark lane near the place. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
A short walk along the causeway to Horrid Hill is a must, followed by a longer walk along the tideline to the reedbeds at Motney Hill RSPB Reserve.
All the other spellings are just horrid and atrocious, and trendifying an extremely beautiful name.
Surely you would not call a signalman unfeeling because he held out a red lamp when he knew that just round the curve beyond his cabin the rails were up, and that any train that reached the place would go over in horrid ruin. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, nay, in the midst of every tremendous assailant, "might pass on with unblenched majesty," uninjured and invulnerable. Lives of the Necromancers
This game was played in horrid conditions and the stiff breeze that blew from one corner flag to the other made point taking arduous even at the best of times.
Many masterpieces have been considered horrid at some stage and bad art has often been derided as room decoration. Times, Sunday Times
She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
See what cruelty covetousness is the cause of, and what horrid practices those are often put upon that are greedy to enlarge their own border. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
We've all been through that horrid process of buying clunkers from guys in slick suits and even slicker haircuts.
Israel has two distinct long-term disadvantages to her survival that all other nuclear powers thankfully lack - horrid demographics and a torrid, passionate subsidized relationship with a sugar daddy, in this case America. LewRockwell.com
This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
A skilful phrasemaker drafted that sentence, and it has a horrid brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
It's a plot used in many a movie, most recently "1408" the number of a horrid hotel suite where 56 met their deaths, one after another in the grisliest of manners. Archive 2008-10-01
As is so often the case in dreams, he saw all this with horrid particularity. COLDHEART CANYON
Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature. The Pawprints of History
Truth" ought to be buried in the dungheap of awful PC ideas executed as horrid comics. Could Marvel’s Reborn bring us back to Truth? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Pleasant, thinks I. 'Here, boy, let's have a look at this precious little account -- hum! ha! hunting-saddle, gag-bit for Lamplighter, head-piece and reins to ditto, ~317~~" racing-saddle for chestnut mare, 'etc., etc., etc.; a horrid affair as long as my arm -- total £96 18s. 2d. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
Nor clearest noon tide can that horrid pain dispel. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Dim-witted because education held no escape, unstylish because poverty stalks the abused, these people are the spat out remains of a horrid meal.
MCZ 1102, the holotype skull of Triceratops "eurycepahlus" Shlaikjer 1935 (now considered conspecific with T. horridus). Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts
Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense.
Which is a pity, considering how horrid, clunky and dated they all are.
It was horrid the way rugby went. Times, Sunday Times
When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge. Chapter 7
Sometimes they sound like distant thunder, and sometimes like the noises you hear in the mountain from those horrid miners underneath. The Princess and the Goblin
He had made no offer churchwards, and -- "Poor man," as Mrs Greenow said in her little explanation, "if I hadn't let him stay there, he would have had no resting-place for the sole of his foot, but some horrid barrack-room! Can You Forgive Her?
Then I saw there was no great wound anywhere upon me; but only an utter bruising; and I found upon my right leg that there was a sharp and hairy claw clipt about it; but the armour had saved me from harm of the horrid thing; so that I did but kick it free with my left foot, and thence into the fire-hole. The Night Land
The term rebel may not now appear in all its train of horrid consequences. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour.
Why couldn't it have all been a horrid nightmare?
‘That was a horrid, horrid time,’ said Dennis, who has three daughters, one son, a step-daughter and five grandchildren.
Unfortunately the dragons can't climb above the cloud ceiling so the five travelers are stuck in the horrid weather.
It's horrid to go to school with all those stiffies, that don't care a snap for you, and only laugh. Real Folks
The places are heated but not aired, and the smell is horrid; but they seem to revel in "frowst. My War Experiences in Two Continents
Espying a sinister pattern behind these events, Grose bemoans what she characterizes as a horrid resurgence of puritanism that has become a common attitude among young females and is somehow perverting even once-sensible feminists such as Ms. Klausner: Political Mavens
It's a horrid condition known as 'globus hystericus' - or lump in the throat. Times, Sunday Times
Whole boxes of swivels going green and horrid, bulk spools of line that are there from one season to the next… how the tackle manufacturers must love us!
The slow, dismal tolling of bells; the masked and muffled familiars; the Dominicans carrying their horrid flag, followed by the penitents behind a huge cross; the condemned ones, barefoot, clad in painted caps and the repulsive sanbenito; next the effigies of accused offenders who had escaped by flight; then, the bones of dead culprits in black coffins painted with flames and other hellish symbols; and, finally, the train closing with a host of priests and monks. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Whilst he was writing the book in 1782 Beckford wrote in a letter, ‘I am at work on a story so horrid that I tremble whilst relating it, and have not a nerve in my frame but vibrates’.
For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre.
Last year, it gave up 43 sacks, subjecting quarterbacks Patrick Ramsey and Tim Hasselbeck to a horrid battering.
How you must have suffered all this cruel time, pent up there in that horrid, _horrid_ place! The Missing Merchantman
Edmund has now lost both of his fiancées and must submit to his own horrid fate.
He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture. Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow-creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me. Chapter 20
The strulbrug of Swift (and Swift, being his horrid creator, ought to understand his own horrid creation) was a wreck, a shell, that had been burned hollow, and cancered by the fierce furnace of life. Autobiographical Sketches
I developed a horrid sore throat and ear-aches yesterday and, despite my best care last night and going to bed at 9 p.m. for a long and fairly good night's rest was for the naught this morning when I woke up with nothing but a "croak" for a voice! Archive 2008-03-01
To be fair, the horrid genius of the attacks was that no one could have predicted that hijacked airliners would be used as guided missiles.
It was horrible, really horrid. Mothers who Leave
But moaning about men doesn't make you a feminist – it just makes you a moaner who can't get along with men for reasons that are probably at least as much to do with your failings, flaws and foibles as they are with some imagined horridness on the part of men. Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill
Even your name, too-generous earl, is in the horrid catalogue. The Scottish Chiefs
History books tell us that wars are messy, chaotic and even nations fighting just causes make horrid moral mistakes and battlefield blunders.
When that horrid old harridan halloed out that somebody was smoking, I thought I should have died. The Duke's Children
Never the less, it also makes me extremely bitter and vindictive and say horrid things.
Several neighborhoods suffered periodically from horrid smoke and fumes.
The captain slowed and ported the vessel to pass around the monolith, and everyone took a good look at the horrid idol.
One the one hand you have an obese, disgusting pot calling the sluttish, horrid kettle black. Rosanne Barr Lashes Out At Madonna (but falls short of eating her)
'Yes, yes -- I forgot the horrid name -- a Swedenborgian, that is it. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
Pah! the reminiscences of the horrid black-hole of a place in which we soldiers were confined; of the wretched creatures with whom I was now forced to keep company; of the ploughmen, poachers, pickpockets, who had taken refuge from poverty, or the law (as, in truth, I had done myself), is enough to make me ashamed even now, and it calls the blush into my old cheeks to think I was ever forced to keep such company. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
So why not adapt a range of prohibition notices, all employing that horrid diagonal line struck across a circle? Times, Sunday Times
'I don't care,' she said to herself as she trudged along in silence beside Miss Neale; 'they're horrid to me -- _horrid_. The Rectory Children
When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind.
According to the same writer, the Gnostics and the Stratiotics equalled the Phibionites in exhibitions of licentiousness, and all three sects mingled horrid pollutions with their mysteries, men and women displaying equal dissoluteness. A Philosophical Dictionary
As she looked on in horrid fascination, she saw the derrick change into a latticelike tower of flame, saw its upper part begin slowly to crumble and disintegrate. Flowing Gold
What with water problems indoors and the horrid wet weather outdoors, it's been a shut-in day once more.
It was the filling that was iffy, redolent of garlic powder, full of that horrid bean salad that comes in cans and contains suspicious bits of red and green material that might once have been a pepper.
Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance!
Did I say something awfully horrid? Times, Sunday Times
She was snarling as if these were quite horrid things to say.
Horrid slippery things amomum sticks to walk on, when they are lying on the ground; and there is a lot of my old enemy the calamus about. Travels in West Africa
_that_, but you could not know the awful, the horrid threat he held out to me, if I did not comply with his demand -- ay, _demand_ for an immediate union? The Buccaneer A Tale
The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down.
Agree with Beld again (this has become my habit!) … that anushka in tights is the best thing about this horrid song and 'picturization'. NAACHGAANA
He might treat with disdain ‘the horrid, sweetish white Zinfandel’, but strangely enough, there are consumers who feel the same way about his favoured vintages.
The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment.
Outside, rain pattered against the sides of the wooden house and shutters to the windows, and Lon loathed joining the horrid weather, but had no other choice.
The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas.
That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise.
What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue.
His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid.
You see it now in those horrid traffic jams; in tar slicks that come and go when you swim in pellucid waters; and in the awful fires that destroyed many trees on the Cote during last summer's heat wave.
How did I toss and tumble in mine; which, small as it was, I was not destined to enjoy alone, but to pass the night in company with anthropophagous wretched reptiles, who took their horrid meal off an English Christian! The Kickleburys on the Rhine
The underbrush is chiefly alder, rubus, ledum, three species of vaccinium, and Echinopanax horrida, the whole about from six to eight feet high, and in some places closely intertangled and hard to penetrate. Travels in Alaska
There were bands on horses and bands on chariots, and at the tail of the procession a fearful and wonderful instrument bearing the euphonious and classic name of the "calliope," whose chief function seemed to be that of terrifying the farmers 'horses into frantic and determined attempts to escape from these horrid alarms of the city to the peaceful haunts of their rural solitudes. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
With a furious oath Conan struck, and his sword sheared the horrid shape in half. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
The eager Confederates drove them with horrid carnage a mile across the plain, and only desisted from the pursuit when they came under the fire of the Federal batteries across the river. The Battle of Fredericksburg
I am resting in bed with achy bones/muscles and a horrid chesty cough.
Andrew's slightly parted lips were resting uncomfortably on the back of her neck, his horrid breath and snores now directed quite frankly right at her nose.
She really is a horrid woman. The Sun
Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it.
a "blackbirder" often presented a horrid spectacle -- the unfortunate The Call Of The South 1908
No, it was solfeggio, horrid dry scales to sing, and rhythm, and notation. The Happy Venture
I saw several comments about dowdy dresses being discouraging, but can a dress, any dress, be any dowdier than a pair of dirty jeans with frayed cuffs dragging on the floor picking up dust, with the clunky horrid dirty sports shoes? Blue Dress Painting
I halted abruptly in front of the horridly painted blue house, threw Jackson my .22 and grabbed my magnum, loading the revolver with six shots.
That horrid leg of lamb won't do anything but sozzle away in the pan; the string-beans have been scorched; and -- oh, goodness! The House of Torchy
While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin.
Reminds me of this with "this" being link to some horrid molded gelatinized creation of yore that you find in old cookbooks full of unfortunate recipes. Archive 2009-10-01
Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
Instead, he continues to panderto specialinterest groups and tothose responsible (MIC) for feeding the flames ofthese continued illegal and horridwars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama Picks a Clarence Thomas for the EPA
Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet.
We were nearing one of Italy's most horrid swamps, and the ground beneath us sank freely underneath our feet.
Somerfield's own-label red burgundy used to be horrid, but the past few vintages have been full of elegant, smoky, plummy fruit.
Despite the fact that her head was beginning to pound horridly, she determinedly held her head high and slowly danced the gavotte perfectly without letting the book fall.
Our caves are not like her castle, and when we pluck fruit from the trees we have nursed so carefully in crevices, away from the wind, we have to climb their rough and horrid trunks.
Bloody sharp stuff, horrid stuff, and Harris and Perkins backed out of the shrine, their arms filled with the last bottles and they hurled them up onto the bridge and now the hooves were a thunder to fill the air and shake the ground, and the curb chains and scabbard chains clinked and Sharpe stood to see the lances coming straight at him, and even the dragoons had stopped to watch the Poles slaughter their way across the bridge. Sharpe's Skirmish
I really did like it, and you mustn't be horrid about it. Times, Sunday Times
The case is unanswerable, though the politics are horrid. Times, Sunday Times
A conspiracy, or something more horrid? Times, Sunday Times
Memory may hold on to horrid incidents, but it's a great obliterator of dull, protracted misery, especially if you help it with heavy drinking. Flashman's Lady
He got really annoyed with me, gave me dirty looks and was generally horrid. The Sun
Many of the styles back in the day were simply horrid, amusing or plain bizarre.
You are a horrid old pig, Aldiff MacCatfy," she said, with slow emphasis, "an 'I hates you hard, an' we all hates you here, 'ceps Meg; and Pip says you're ze jammiest girl out, an' I wis 'a drate big ziant would come and huff and puff and blow you into ze middlest part of ze sea. Seven Little Australians
The same is probably true of people who are horrid to waiters. Times, Sunday Times
I made a Duro a short time ago - however, mine became a 'babydoll' duro since the length on the original version looked horrid on me. Open Duro Roundup (with non-bonus whining!) - A Dress A Day
We joined the ‘Lev Tolstoy’ ship and were welcomed with a piece of rather horrid salted bread and a glass of vodka, followed by some Russian entertainment featuring virtuoso balalaika playing.
With the genie out of the bottle, it was only a matter of time before something more horrid would emerge.
A short walk along the causeway to Horrid Hill is a must, followed by a longer walk along the tideline to the reedbeds at Motney Hill RSPB Reserve.
Although this was a horrid sight and sound the constant attention the kids yearned for made me pay no heed to them.
I would not be the one to dispute, that perhaps in 1700 or 1800, or early 1900 the field was, what we would define as quackery and horrid treatments today. Doctor Resigns From Hospital Because She Won’t Do Unneeded C-Sections
The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs.
The actor's performance is horridly off-key - his screaming antics would be more appropriate for a cartoon villain.
He can trapan a Jephthah into a vow and solemn oath, and then bind him, under fear of perjury, to perform it by an horrid and unhuman murder. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
I actually thought for a moment that the ultraslim, horridly wicked evil scientist in this film was played by Bruce Coville. WTF??
Anna -- regarding your "food for thought" comment: viewing a captive living in horrid conditions should make any woman less likely to complain. An Enduring Marriage
That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities.
I now can't have Michelle Trachenberg on my shitlist 'cause of that horrid Space Cases episode 'cause she's doing a good job in this episode. "You have a rat." "I'm not gonna kill Steve!"
Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom.
They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one.
After a few horrid years, investors seem to have become hardened to all but the most harrowing news. Times, Sunday Times
You'll find no contemporary rhythms here - no breakbeats, syncopated garage or 4/4 tech-house - to jolt you into the clever, chaotic and horrid present.
The sound is also there, although, like the first units, digitized speech is still horrid.
Yes, horrid cold; but my muff is so big, I won't carry it. An Old-Fashioned Girl
It's not even that I secretly skip the horrid hair washing bath night.
What a horrid smell!
The platform, we were told, was awash with horrid chemicals which would pollute vast areas of the pristine ocean.
She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
What a blessing is a wife! — and what a change we have had from hot to coolish weather! — not that the change is applicable in any horrid way, — all I mean is that — damn the application! New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
Jonah and Sally lingered behind, holding dishrags over their noses to block the horrid smell of brimstone.
The torpedo-boat lances one of her horrid needles of steel.
These are horrid creatures, beasts and monsters.
_Multo tamen vetustior et horridior ille quam Scipio, et, cum sint in dicendo variæ, voluntates, delectari mihi magis antiquitate videtur, et lubenter verbis etiam uti paulo magis priscis Lælius. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
A new sofa had been introduced, a horrid chintz affair, most unprelatical and almost irreligious; such a sofa as never yet stood in the study of any decent High Church clergyman of the Church of England. Barchester Towers
I had told her all about the horrid way he spoke to us innocent students, the way he punished Colleen with eight detentions, the way he hit people with the ruler when they gave the wrong answer.
Not to be unfairly biased, but for some reason I think older women should have more sense about dressing than a young girl so when I see them in horrid clothing I feel sad and discouraged, because it makes me think that widsom and good judgement don't come with age. Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
We had one unfortunate horse left, the grey called Formby, and that poor creature held out as long and on as little water as I am sure is possible in such a heated and horrid region. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
This is usually attributed to objective dangers - unpredictable acts of God, such as avalanches, icefalls, rockfall, and horrid weather.
If a leaf of the paper, which I slowly, warily, stealingly turned, made but one faintest rustle, how did that _reveille_ boom in echoes through the vacant and haunted chambers of my poor aching heart, my God! and there was a cough in my throat which for a cruelly long time I would not cough, till it burst in horrid clamour from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my inmost blood. The Purple Cloud
Stella has given him some tiles to roof his house; he would like a cloak as well: cum pluvias madidumque Iovem perferre negaret et rudis hibernis villa nataret aquis, plurima, quae posset subitos effundere nimbos, muneribus venit tegula missa tuis. horridus ecce sonat Boreae stridore December: Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
Tydvil, _ Cyclops 'Hell, sootiest and horridest avatar of the The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
Sometimes they sound like distant thunder, and sometimes like the noises you hear in the mountain from those horrid miners underneath. The Princess and the Goblin
The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill.
She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time.
Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet.
None of that means that when a young officer of that patrol is gunned down for no good reason that it doesn't make me grieve, and nothing would stop me from doing what I can to help his family in this horrid and sad time. Conversation With a Conservative
They brood over and revolve it -- the idea grows up, a horrid phantasmalian monomania; and all of a sudden, in a hundred different places, the one seed sown by the leaden types springs up into foul flowering. Night and Morning, Volume 3
Sofia tells them about the horrid and rancid conditions in which she lives, with fleas, vermin, roaches, and about her job cleaning the dirty sheets.
It went through with a horrid thundering that made my belly quake.
How are we to describe symptoms which, flowing from one source, yet show themselves in such opposite forms as those of an intermittent fever, a silent delirium, or a horrid hypochondriasm? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions

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