The word 'horrid' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean something that is horrible, disgusting, or unpleasant. Example sentence: "The taste of the food was horrid, so I could hardly finish it."
But while the couple have been able to make the new system work for them, they described the legislation as "horrid" and "complicated".
Sounders FC now has seven wins, all after that horrid start to the season.
The horrid cold has perhaps driven the mice indoors, where they occasionally plunge to their death in the sink, because I haven't finished my washing up or emptied the basin the night before.
Here, the Doctor and Clara found themselves in the north pole being hunted by Dream Crabs, horrid things that attach to your face and induce a dreaming state as they feast on your brain (feasting being how they celebrate the birth of the Dream Crab Messiah).
Up he comes with one grisly idea, it's rejected, but he pops up with another one, equally horrid, and now, while everyone's been looking the other way at You Know What, he's come up with a corker: teaching qualifications are no longer necessary.
They've never had horrid bloating and dragging tummy aches, bloody knickers, sheets and even mattresses, spent hours washing everything, lying bleeding and clutching hot-water bottles.
Contemporaries were scarcely impressed – "a facetious experiment upon public intelligence" suggested one – and even now it is hard to decide whether it is, or is not, absolutely horrid.
Perhaps it was unrealistic to have hoped that he could answer the hankering for somebody to grip this whole horrid business.
There aren't many things on radio horrid enough to make me jump up and smack the button to OFF, shouting all the way there to drown it out, because I can't stand to hear a fraction of a second of such drek.
While many Greens are willing to debate and take action beyond the recycling bin, most of their voters prefer to advocate a Disney-like eco-utopia, where all the horrid people are so deeply touched by the plight/beauty of Mother Earth that they change their nasty ways and everything gets better.
The Chinese, less fastidious than most Westerners about human rights or contracts, have been most active.In this section Unloved for trying to keep the peace A beacon of faiths Half horrid, half hopeful A ruling party that is unshockable An alternative to violence?
