Sentence examples for horrid idea from inspiring English sources

Though this row is being presented as a push-back against absurd, politically-correct rulings and the horrid idea of prisoners voting, I think that the really revealing fury is centred on Britain's submission to foreign judges.

Upfront disclaimer: I always thought letting fans vote for the All-Star team -- or anything else -- is a horrid idea.

To be perfectly clear, I think that prosecuting men in these ways is an equally horrid idea.

It's not a horrid idea; reading my explicit sex is akin to those trumped up movies that sexualize breathing, eyelashes, and bedsheets.

After all, where might such horrid ideas lead?

By E. B. White The New Yorker, December 19 , 1931 P. 11One of the more horrid ideas that turned up during the week was one emanating from an insurance company.

"These people ruined my son's brain with horrid thoughts and ideas, they broke him," he added.

The gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, was radicalised by Isis, according to his father Hakinm, who said the group had "ruined my son's brain with horrid thoughts and ideas".

The male bees in the Waltz of the Flowers are fettered by horrid headdresses, and Mr. Ratmansky's comic idea of bee behavior has some tiresome gesticulations.

Make that our fundamental understanding of real life, rather than the idea that other human beings are generally horrid and would steal your telly as soon as look at you, and that's just how it is.

2. With the predominating idea of an effect produced, causing tremor or horror, terrible, frightful, horrid (rare, and mostly poet. for the class. horribilis): horridiore aspectu esse, Caes.