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adjective

Horrid adj.

Rough; rugged; bristling. (Archaic) "Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn."

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. "Not in the legions Of horrid hell." "The horrid things they say."

Synonyms: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Horrid" Quotes from Famous Books

... last his living tomb of rock was rent; Though but a narrow rift He yet had made Enough; it did a horrid monster lift, That clutched him close and held aloft a blade; He felt himself undone, when, ...

— Rowena & Harold - A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst • Wm. Stephen Pryer

... is cruel Frederick, see! A horrid wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He kill'd the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten down the stairs; And Oh! far worse than all beside, He whipp'd ...

— CAW! CAW! - The Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time • RM

... exactly suits you and doesn't make you ridiculous like my name does me!" Sylvia Wharton announced unexpectedly, breaking into the conversation for the first time during the evening in her dull, even tones. "What is really horrid is to have a name that suggests some one very beautiful and graceful—a name that sounds like water running over pebbles in a brook and then to look like I do. I wish everybody would call me Mary Jane! I would like to have ...

— The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill • Margaret Vandercook

... to Wilkes to furnish him with exactly such an opportunity as he desired to push himself into farther notoriety. He at once printed Lord Weymouth's letter, and circulated it, with an inflammatory comment, in which he described it as a composition having for its fruit "a horrid massacre, the consummation of a hellish plot deliberately planned." Too angry to be prudent, Lord Weymouth complained to the House of Lords of this publication as a breach of privilege, and the Lords formally represented it to the House of Commons as an insult deliberately offered ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... said about you today," she told him one night, a tide of color in her cheeks. "It was horrid. As ...

— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

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