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horrid

[hawr-id, hor-] / ˈhɔr ɪd, ˈhɒr- /




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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

Inside was a diorama featuring models of nine crustaceans, including a coconut crab, usually found on tropical islands; a decorator crab, which covers its body with algae for camouflage; and the knobbly horrid elbow crab.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023

Still, you lose your shame quickly in this horrid place.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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