horrid

[US]/'hɒrɪd/
[UK]/'hɔrɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. causing disgust; dreadful.

Phrases & Collocations

a horrid experience

horrid sight

horrid smell

horrid taste

horrid behavior

Example Sentences

a horrid brown colour.

Don’t be horrid to me!

The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down.

Very well, Mr.Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't.But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet.

Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?

The boys in their grubby navy bow ties and blue uniforms were indistinguishably horrid—nose-pickers, thumbsuckers, snorers, neer-do-wells, farters, burpers, the unwashed and unclean.

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