horrid
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That reduces China’s response time to a border flare-up and “pushes power projection in that horrid terrain,” Symon said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
"It's actually a very good and moving script. And I say that as someone who's horrid about scripts. This was brilliant."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2024
Snap’s Spectacles are truly horrid, like something you’d wear as part of a half-assed Andy Warhol costume on Halloween.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
UCLA’s run game was horrid in the opener, gaining 24 yards in 13 carries if you take away quarterback Ethan Garbers’ scrambles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help him, so I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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