horrid

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025

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

The problem is that when it was bad, it was horrid.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2024

When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver