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, 13 Mar. 2026 Coming off a baffling loss at a Jazz team trying to stack losses on Monday, the Warriors returned to Chase Center on Tuesday and lost 130-124 in overtime to a horrendous Bulls outfit with only eight active players.—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026 Hiller’s status had been a topic ever since his horrendous decisions last spring and remained so as the Kings never regained the magic that flowed throughout 2024-25 up until that fateful series.—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026 That’s a remarkably consistent effect, given that the knock on baking soda was always the risk of horrendous gastrointestinal side effects.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026 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