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Horrid   /hˈɔrəd/   Listen
adjective
Horrid  adj.  
1.
Rough; rugged; bristling. (Archaic) "Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn."
2.
Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. "Not in the legions Of horrid hell." "The horrid things they say."
Synonyms: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable.






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"Horrid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Burtis responded, promptly; "I'll meet her, and am glad of an excuse to go out this horrid day. I'll wrap her up in ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe

... Betty, and dragged her bonnet further over her face. "That horrid stone of yours made a d-dust, and its—it's ...
— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner

... I could find somebody to accompany me on this horrid excursion," he exclaimed. "Miss Sukey! there's no use putting in my guitar-music. A pretty figure I should cut, strumming away on that, upon the dirty deck of a Down East schooner! I can't have the ...
— Hurrah for New England! - The Virginia Boy's Vacation • Louisa C. Tuthill

... Indeed every few leagues they encountered such a stream. They generally swam their horses over. In this case, La Salle, with one or two of his men, was upon a light raft of canes. Suddenly an enormous crocodile, twenty feet in length, raised his head out of the water, and with one snap of his horrid jaws grasped one of the men by the waist and drew him under. As the monster sank, there was one short, wild shriek from the victim, a slight crimson tinge of the waves, and a small circling whirlpool marking the spot where the huge beast had ...
— The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hu • John S. C. Abbott

... her what an ass he was. She was simple-minded and awfully ignorant to pitch those old Indian laws at him in her fury, but he could not blame her; oh, no, he could not for one moment blame her. He had been terribly severe and unreasonable, and the horrid McDonald temper had got the better of him; and he loved her so. Oh! He loved her so! She would surely feel that, and forgive him, and— He went straight to his wife's room. The blue velvet evening dress lay on the chair into which he had thrown himself ...
— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson


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