horrid

IPA: hˈɔrʌd

Examples of "horrid" in Sentences

"How you must have suffered all this cruel time, pent up there in that horrid, _horrid_ place!
"I mean," said Sibyl, "that you have got to reward me for doing your horrid -- _horrid_, dirty work!"
Anna, with her obsessive cleanliness, did not like the dog, which she described as a horrid and dirty creature.
'I don't care,' she said to herself as she trudged along in silence beside Miss Neale; 'they're horrid to me -- _horrid_.
Anna -- regarding your "food for thought" comment: viewing a captive living in horrid conditions should make any woman less likely to complain.
Espying a sinister pattern behind these events, Grose bemoans what she characterizes as a horrid resurgence of puritanism that has become a common attitude among young females and is somehow perverting even once-sensible feminists such as Ms. Klausner:
Not to be unfairly biased, but for some reason I think older women should have more sense about dressing than a young girl so when I see them in horrid clothing I feel sad and discouraged, because it makes me think that widsom and good judgement don't come with age.