Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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The Atlanta Braves have gotten off to a horrendous start to the season and it's been an entire team collapse to lead them there.—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025 Ossoff cited horrendous living conditions documented in Salvadoran prisons, where inmates often lack access to proper sanitation, temperature control and even potable water.—Brian Mann, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025 The footage of the accident is horrendous.—Adam Carlson, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025 My appetite was absolutely horrendous.—Shaedra Byrd, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horrendous
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Etymology
Latin horrendus "inspiring terror or awe, dreadful" (gerundive of horrēre "to be stiffly erect, bristle, shudder, shiver") + -ous — more at horror entry 1
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