horrid
Speech parts
1. horrid - Adjective
2. horrid - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Rough; rugged; bristling.
Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
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Examples
subjected to outrageous cruelty
a hideous pattern of injustice
horrific conditions in the mining industry
when she was bad she was horrid
Blake 1952, p. 496 Meanwhile, Boylston had inoculated 287 people, with six resulting deaths. citation Inoculation debate Boylston and Mather's inoculation crusade "raised a horrid Clamour"sfn among the people of Boston.
An editorial in the Missoulian newspaper in 1947 said we should be pursue “a brotherhood of the world and an eternal end to the horrid thing that brought those we honor today to their untimely deaths.