Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
a horrendous explosion shook the building
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Until the 1950s, its inmates were Vietnamese revolutionaries – or anyone deemed to be such – and conditions were truly horrendous.—Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026 While Sturm sat Lohrei for the next power play after a similar situation in the loss to Toronto, and could have reasonably benched him after that horrendous sequence, Sturm did put him back on the ice.—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 But her latest act is horrendous and cannot be supported.—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 20 Mar. 2026 The horrendous abuses that took place under Bright Horizon's care were nothing short of despicable.—Tim McNicholas, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026 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