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horrid ['hɒrid]

a. 可怕的, 极讨厌的, 毛骨悚然的

horrid

[ adj ]

exceedingly bad

<adj.all>

when she was bad she was horrid

grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

<adj.all>

subjected to outrageous cruelty

a hideous pattern of injustice

horrific conditions in the mining industry

Horrid \Hor"rid\, a. [L. horridus. See {Horror}, and cf.
{Ordure}.]
1. Rough; rugged; bristling. [Archaic]

Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
--Dryden.

2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking;
hence, very offensive.

Not in the legions
Of horrid hell. --Shak.

The horrid things they say. --Pope.

Syn: Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful;
terrific; horrible; abominable.

"There isn't anything horrid my eyes haven't seen," writes one entrant.
Meg Johnson (replacing Patricia Routledge in the National's cast) has neither the vocal range nor the earthmother authority for Nettie; and Clive Rowe's way of acting Mr Snow as a witless Mr Slow is horrid.
But that is as enthusiastic as he gets: "Most of this record is perfectly horrid fluff." Still, the quintet is clean-cut and camera-ready, plucked from the streets of blue-collar Boston by Mr. Starr, now 36, whose main interest was the boys' looks.
Mr. Lipper notes that, based on 1991's performance, "there's one very horrid conclusion under that sort of analysis-money market funds."
We do not need to know the full and horrid details, the rapes and mutilations.
The economic situation was horrid. What does this analysis imply for 1994 and, by extension, for the mid-1990s? The answer is that 1994 and the mid-1990s should be a complete contrast to the miseries of the recession from which we are now emerging.

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