(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”.
Shocking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shock
(a.) Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
(17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
(18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.