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horrid

[hawr-id, hor-]

adjective

such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.

extremely unpleasant or disagreeable: horrid weather; She thought her uncle was horrid.

Archaic. shaggy or bristling; rough.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin horridus bristling, rough, equivalent to horr- (stem of horrēre to stand on end, bristle) + -idus -id⁴

Related forms

hor·rid·ly, adverb

hor·rid·ness, noun

Synonyms
2. nasty, vile, odious, abominable.

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But there islno magic in words to drive away the horrid spectre of the deficit.

It is horrid and false and demeaning for both workers and clients.

Only later did the horrid understanding dawn that nobody was immune.

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But there islno magic in words to drive away the horrid spectre of the deficit.

It is horrid and false and demeaning for both workers and clients.

Only later did the horrid understanding dawn that nobody was immune.

In some cases the animals have been abused and kept in horrid conditions.

The dogs don t want to run when trail conditions are horrid.

Indenture, as horrid as it was for some people, was not as evil as chattel slavery.

Later a couple of horrid books and a disastrous interview stained his reputation.

It is probably a horrid time to tie up money in shares of a cyclical company.

All of the internet sites for rating professors are horrid.

Detractors of such horrid commercialisation there will no doubt be.

Extinction follows discovery with a horrid regularity.

Music library uses a horrid file tree for browsing media.

Their tendency to empty their digestive tubes on the floor may seem horrid to humans, but it helps them to attract mates.

We didn't need extra visuals or sounds of its horrid death.

It lathers up great and will wash away the horrid stench from belly crawling through dungeons.

So many horrid but avoidable things happen that one wonders if the author harbours a secret masochism.

There are horrid doubts: about consistency and about counterfeiting.

While the timing of the next market collapse is anything but clear, the scapegoat is already in view: those horrid hedge funds.

We were not one day all nice and friendly and then the next horrid and mean.

The moment comes when his horrid wife's horrid brother explains that there is a clever new plan:.

In the long run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity.

Spotting, which occurs when the mirror's reflective silver oxidizes, can look horrid on a modern mirror.

It has responded by curbing production and laying off workers, but its heavy fixed costs are a horrid drain on cash.

Psychologists know that torture causes, among other horrid things, lasting mental-health problems.

It also smells horrid and sets delicate scalps afire.

If they are that rude to appliants, they must be horrid to work for.

Even horrid families must be better than starvation and debilitating disease.

Daragjati is a known dispenser of horrid racial slurs.

Its a horrid business, that criminalisation has done nothing to stop.

To its detractors it's a study in appallingly bad taste, a horrid trivialization of a tragic event.

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World English Dictionary

horrid (ˈhɒrɪd)

—*adj*
1.	disagreeable; unpleasant: a horrid meal
2.	repulsive or frightening
3.	informal unkind

[C16 (in the sense: bristling, shaggy): from Latin horridus prickly, rough, from horrēre to bristle]

'horridly

—*adv*

'horridness

—n

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Word Origin & History

horrid

1410, "hairy, shaggy, bristling," from L. horridus "bristly, prickly, rough, horrid, frightful," from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder" (see horror). Sense weakened 17c. to "unpleasant, offensive."

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