Definition of "horrid" []

• Causing horror; dreadful. (adjective)
• Extremely disagreeable; offensive. (adjective)
• Archaic Bristling; rough. (adjective)

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• ""I mean," said Sibyl, "that you have got to reward me for doing your horrid -- _horrid_, dirty work!""
• "'I don't care,' she said to herself as she trudged along in silence beside Miss Neale; 'they're horrid to me -- _horrid_."
• ""How you must have suffered all this cruel time, pent up there in that horrid, _horrid_ place!"