What's the difference between horrendous and horrid?

Horrendous


Definition:

  • (a.) Fearful; frightful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
  • (2) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (3) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
  • (4) But the way the women who do exist in the film are depicted is horrendous, like, '50s-level sexist.
  • (5) Making places distinctive may seem “horrendous” at the time.
  • (6) So far, the public has been fantastic in coming forward with information to help us, but we need you to help us find these men who we believe were involved in this horrendous attack.
  • (7) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
  • (8) "We all knew the weather was going to be horrendous, but it feels like the right preparation wasn't in place," said Hawkes.
  • (9) The horrendous due process violations in the Paghman trial have only worsened the injustices of this terrible crime,” said Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch.
  • (10) Given the horrendous cost of relegation, three clubs, believed to be relegated Fulham and Cardiff as well as Norwich, have done so, two in early April and one more recently.
  • (11) A horrendous blunder by Mertesacker presents the ball to Aluko, who goes around Fabianksi.
  • (12) FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • (13) Worse still, the horrendous costs of a libel case mean that losing can result in a legal bill running to over £1m (even if the damages are just £10,000).
  • (14) "As we have previously stated, FGM is a horrendous practice and a serious violation of internationally recognised human rights.
  • (15) The parents of Delagrange, who was attacked as she walked home at night on Twickenham Green in 2004, were in court for the verdict, as was Sheedy, who suffered horrendous injuries after Bellfield ran her over near her house in Isleworth, west London .
  • (16) If she hadn't been able to get legal aid, her two-year-old would have continued living in unsanitary, horrendous conditions."
  • (17) Coming to the Commons as the face of a bill which is currently being rewritten by other people, the health secretary Andrew Lansley had a horrendous task yesterday.
  • (18) Leaflets from the electoral commission , which were designed to explain what the reform would mean to every household with meticulous neutrality, ended up making AV look horrendously complex.
  • (19) He is in a horrendously difficult position and will never get everything right.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Benn gives his speech in favour of airstrikes in the House of Commons “The abuse they are getting, the words they are using are just horrendous.

Horrid


Definition:

  • (a.) Rough; rugged; bristling.
  • (a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Admittedly we've had the odd wretched experience – the long wait in casualty or for a bedpan, the horrid puréed dinners, the lost notes – but ultimately we've all been looked after, cured and called back for check-ups and therapies.
  • (2) Morales has horrid command, which isn't exactly what you want in a two-on, nobody out situation.
  • (3) It’s a relief doing a show where you don’t have to be horrid.
  • (4) "In the face of these horrid conditions, we think that's a pretty resilient performance," Mr Grigson said.
  • (5) Horrid cliche, hence perfect for David Cameron and the SNP – be careful what you wish for.
  • (6) I wait, hoping that R will step in, and luckily, because I hate myself for breaking such horrid news, he does.
  • (7) It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite.
  • (8) I ask if there’s one thing he’d really recommend for me and he suggests a £225 black biker jacket with detachable sleeves , which is horrid, but I won’t hold that against him.
  • (9) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
  • (10) To get a story out of politicians, whose self-regard is if anything even more over-developed than ours, mine, you have to do a fair amount of pretty horrid fawning and flattering.
  • (11) They're getting away with something horrid scot-free!
  • (12) We never show any horrid pictures, ever, as a matter of policy.
  • (13) "I think we have to be harshly realistic, which means we don't pretend we are chums of the Syrian regime – they are a ghastly regime, they are a horrid regime – but just as during the second world war Churchill and Roosevelt swallowed hard and dealt with Stalin, with the Soviet Union, not because they had any naivety about what Stalin represented but because that was necessary in order to defeat Hitler, and history judged them right in coming to that difficult but necessary judgment," Rifkind said.
  • (14) Det Ch Supt Russ Jackson, of Greater Manchester police , said on Monday: "We are committed to understanding the enormity of Cyril Smith's misconduct and working to try to understand that, and thereby, provide a picture of the extent of his offending, and with the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] to get to a position of what we would have done had he still been alive, and thereby provide that understanding to the victims who have gone through such a horrid time."
  • (15) 'Horrid colonials destroy world heritage thing': we reveal the lies of Big Coral
  • (16) It strikes us though that parents and schools have a responsibility generally to educate children: children need to be taught that being horrid online is just as wrong and hurtful as being horrid face to face."
  • (17) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
  • (18) All right, some of us have banged on for decades about this horrid, mealy-mouthed, catch-all word, hoping to limit its use.
  • (19) By the time George Osborne has completed presenting his austerity budget this Tuesday, there may be more than a few who are wishing an equally horrid fate on him.
  • (20) In 2000 May voted against the repeal of section 28, the horrid legislation brought in under Margaret Thatcher that banned local authorities and schools from “promoting” homosexuality – read: talking about it or offering information, advice and educational materials – and described gay couples as “pretended family relationships”.