Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a horrid or dreadful manner; shockingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a horrid manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
horrid manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a hideous manner
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Examples
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'Which I call horridly mean of him,' protested Horatio, who had come across the fields expressly to announce this fact to Ida.
The Golden Calf 1875
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To use her own expression, it was "horridly" dirty work.
A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods Bessie Marchant 1901
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They go to see an overpriced, horridly cut rock-em sock-em robots match, with Megan Fox pretending to be an actress in a wet T-Shirt.
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It was drafty and "horridly inefficient," says Jane, but the couple fell in love with its “quirky Victorian bones,” as well as its proximity to downtown amenities.
Wendy Gordon: Where Everything's Waiting for You (Downtown) Wendy Gordon 2011
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I thought the show was horridly produced with obvious mistake and pacing issues threw out.
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I don't know what else she could have argued with him about ... and if that horridly cruel comment by Doctor/Donna was actually canon (it is not ... but it could be) then Rose has every reason to believe that she's been replaced and the Doctor wants her to go.
Your Freudian Slip Is Showing...BBC America's Doctor Who Site rabid1st 2009
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That was troubling enough, but then came the horridly insufficient, single sentence on Iran.
Where was Obama the centrist in his State of the Union? Jennifer Rubin 2011
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(The characters and plot were horridly wrecked just to make a CG filled hollywood extravaganza and a quick buck on the coattails of what I believe to be a great saga; albeit some SN members may disagree with me on DBZ, though that is fine; to each his own).
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They lost horridly in a win-and-in-the-playoffs game at Green Bay last week, and they lost control of their own postseason destiny.
Coughlin Gets a Reprieve Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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And why did she let him do so? and if that horridly cruel comment by Doctor/Donna was actually canon (it is not ... but it could be) then Rose has every reason to believe that she's been replaced and the Doctor wants her to go
Your Freudian Slip Is Showing...BBC America's Doctor Who Site rabid1st 2009
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