Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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The following list is by no means exhaustive of this administration's horrendous policies and ridiculous conduct.—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025 The other two portals ruminate on the 1992 Los Angeles riots in the wake of the horrendous Rodney King police brutality verdicts, as well as furious demands for gay rights and survival help as the AIDS epidemic rampaged.—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025 This scheme follows up on Trump's recent horrendous order to eliminate environmental safeguards on more than half of the nation's national forests, opening up 59% of our forests for clear-cutting and logging.—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 May 2025 Balogun had a horrendous defensive strategy, approaching Itauma with a low right hand.—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 24 May 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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