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HORRID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exceedingly bad
Example:
when she was bad she was horrid
Classified under:
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Derivation:
horridness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror
Example:
horrific conditions in the mining industry
Synonyms:
hideous; horrid; horrific; outrageous
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
horridness (a quality of extreme unpleasantness)
Context examples:
From the centre of this branch there hung a man, with his head at a horrid slant to his body and his toes just touching the ground.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the repulsive sneer to the face!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
At this the robber ran back as fast as he could to his comrades, and told the captain how a horrid witch had got into the house, and had spat at him and scratched his face with her long bony fingers; how a man with a knife in his hand had hidden himself behind the door, and stabbed him in the leg; how a black monster stood in the yard and struck him with a club, and how the devil had sat upon the top of the house and cried out, Throw the rascal up here!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I have not so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as much sense, Fanny, as Mr. Rushworth, but much worse-looking, and with a blackguard character.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I fear to think of her, off on the wolds near that horrid place.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Just fancy how horrid!—and led her to the recitation platform, and made her stand there half an hour, holding the slate so everyone could see.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Catherine's blood ran cold with the horrid suggestions which naturally sprang from these words.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Well, and so just as the carriage came to the door, my uncle was called away upon business to that horrid man Mr. Stone.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Far away out in the marsh there arose, all of a sudden, a sound like the cry of anger, then another on the back of it; and then one horrid, long-drawn scream.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
