Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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If your grout isn't horrendous with dirt or stains, this might be a great cleaner for brightening the lines.—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026 Tyreek Hill, for one, suffered a horrendous, left knee injury in Week 4.—Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2026 Like, my cooking is horrendous.—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025 There were legitimate flashes of competent football on defense in Saturday night’s loss, but the combination of horrendous play-calling, pre-snap errors, bad snaps, and bad quarterback play killed any chance to be competitive.—Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horrendous
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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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