Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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Add the horrendous Los Angeles wildfires and President Donald Trump’s potentially huge federal spending reductions and the budget gaps could become even wider.—Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025 But a horrendous second-half shooting slump — 22% — did them in Sunday.—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025 That, along with Nicole Kidman and that horrendous Coke ad, feels like cruel and unusual punishment for those who have already inflicted it upon themselves.—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025 Let our Maryland General Assembly act in a responsible manner and overturn this horrendous proposal.—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 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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