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horrid

[hawr-id, hor-] / ˈhɔr ɪd, ˈhɒr- /




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Arne Slot has faced challenge after challenge this season, from Liverpool's horrid run of nine defeats in 12 to Mohamed Salah's explosive interview at Leeds.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2025

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

“The morale at JPL is horrid right now,” the mechanical engineer said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2025

Well-credentialed scientists were starting to worry about the long-term effects of carbon emissions, but the public was still more attuned to the unavoidable scenes of toxic water pollution and horrid air quality.

From Slate Dec. 30, 2024

She’d say, “And that horrid little photographer didn’t care, do you imagine it ever occurred to him to wash it?”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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