(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”.
Horrifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Horrify
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course, everyone who is not drawn in by the spectacle of a 69-year-old man with hair that clearly telegraphs its owner’s level of self-delusion and casual relationship to the truth is horrified at Trump’s ascendency in the Republican party primary.
(2) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
(3) Nothing will change.” The president-elect then drew attention to a debate remark by Clinton after Trump refused to commit to accepting the election result, quoting her as saying: “That is horrifying.
(4) Lord Roberts, a Liberal Democrat peer, told the Observer he was delighted Muazu was back in the UK but horrified that he had been forced to endure the attempted removal.
(5) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(6) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(7) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
(8) On Thursday last week she was horrified when she heard warnings on the local radio that the moor was going to flood again.
(9) For a reporter, the experience is slightly horrifying.
(10) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
(11) The family of Milly Dowler has attacked the justice system for their "truly horrifying" experience during the trial of the 13-year-old's murderer, Levi Bellfield, saying that they had paid "too high a price" for his conviction.
(12) The system of government he had built was defiantly non-western, relying not on institutions but on individuals, key power-brokers prized for their loyalty and forgiven for faults that horrified overseas observers.
(13) Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official, said he was horrified by the total disrespect for civilian life in the conflict, which has killed at least 250,000 people and maimed up to four times that number.
(14) These terrorist actions were the bloodiest and most horrifying attacks France has experienced in more than half a century.
(15) It might be that the introduction of natal hormones [those you are born with] at puberty has an impact on the trajectory of gender dysphoria.” Even though the idea of experiencing any “natural” puberty might horrify the Kings and the Wilsons, by inhibiting it completely Tom and Julia might be denied the chance to explore fully who they are.
(16) Will it have anything as loopy as the Mos Eisley cantina, or as horrifying as the revelation of Luke’s parentage?
(17) It’s hard to understand the photo’s power in 1945 to Americans, who were weary of the war and horrified by the incredible number of deaths by servicemen, especially in Asian locations most had never heard of, Buell said.
(18) Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for young black men has almost doubled to a horrifying 55.9% in that time.
(19) In another, he complains his staff are cramping his style: "My new private secretary is horrified by the idea of ladies in hotel rooms during foreign visits."
(20) As a Labour party member I want to know whether a leadership candidate wants to listen and work with members and others who are horrified about the future of services and communities.