The phrase "horrendous state" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is in a terrible or appalling condition. Here is an example: "The abandoned house was in a horrendous state, with broken windows, overgrown weeds, and a dilapidated roof."
In a conference room at the Broad Street headquarters of Goldman Sachs, Mr. Ravitch told the board how, more than a quarter-century ago, when he was the authority's chairman, he had escorted the group's founder, David Rockefeller, on an early-morning trip through the transit system to see firsthand its horrendous state of decay.
The fiscal-cliff coverage is the latest example of the horrendous state of many news ventures.
A candid conversation on the horrendous state of new construction in New York, with the crankiest of architecture critics, Ivana Force-Majeure, and our own Bob Nickas.
"Where 47 comes down it's horrendous," said State Senator James S. Cafiero, Republican of North Wildwood.
Taking down bad guys -- no matter how big or how evil they are -- will not end the horrendous criminal and state violence that has overwhelmed Mexico and Central America in recent decades.
"The state faces horrendous problems," Mr. Murray said.
However, to me, had Sandusky been effectively prosecuted in 1998 as he should have been, his future assaults "would (not "might") have been prevented," many young boys would have been saved from Sandusky's horrendous conduct, and Penn State's integrity and reputation would not have been so severely tarnished.
So, I am painfully aware of the horrendous physical and emotional states that depressive patients often go through.
Halima soon found herself treating heartbreaking cases, like that of a 6-year-old boy who suffered horrendous burns when the state-sponsored janjaweed militia threw him into a burning hut.
And even though the travels took place across the Atlantic, the women's experience rings true for the many women in the U.S. who are stuck in states with horrendous abortion restrictions and diminishing access to reproductive health care. .
As a native of California, he has also taken an interest in that state's particularly horrendous prison overcrowding.
