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
“The morale at JPL is horrid right now,” the mechanical engineer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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
Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as “so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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