horrid
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Special dishwasher salt, meanwhile, helps to "soften the water preventing lime scale build up and those horrid white marks on glasses."
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
He raised his hand to comfort her and made some sort of horrid, gurgling speech noise to get her attention.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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