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adjective

Horrid adj.

Rough; rugged; bristling. (Archaic) "Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Horrid" Quotes from Famous Books

... not twenty, sixteen, for your pay four for the cab—and you lose fifty francs' worth of dress, besides being wounded in your pride on seeing a faded bonnet on my head: you don't see why it's faded, but it's those horrid cabs. I say nothing of the annoyance of being tumbled and jostled by a crowd of men, for it seems you don't care ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... horrid to see him lying there—and he had always been so good to me. He was so good to me that very evening ...

— The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study • Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner

... bound up with the stability of the Government; and if this endures, the good effects of the new system will be felt and appreciated in future years, long after the unhappy convulsion which gave it birth shall have passed away. It will serve to smooth the path from horrid war to peace, and to hasten the return of national prosperity; and when experience shall have fully perfected its organization, it may well be expected, by the generality of its operation and its great momentum, ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various

... here, lady, please," she begged. "The ogress will be horrid to you. She can't hurt me. You see, I am an ...

— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers

... did get him out, I should be afflicted with another one just as bad. The Simeon Trustees only appoint people of the stamp of Mr. Choules, my present enemy. He's a horrid little man with a gaunt wife six feet high who beats her children and, if village gossip be true, her husband as well. Now you can see Malford Place, which is let to Middlesborough, as ...

— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

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