Sentence examples for horrid language from inspiring English sources

I must have been getting a bit queer, for I remember a violent altercation and using the most horrid language to him".

Mavis Cheek 'Not for horrid profs,' says Frank Kermode of his Shakespeare's Language (Allen Lane, Penguin) - and he's quite right.

Kunzru's first novel, "The Impressionist," a kind of postcolonial picaresque, showed that he can do more or less what he wants with language, as a wonderful little surge of bleak precision, late in "My Revolutions," demonstrates: a horrid English café is described as displaying "prosthetic-pink iced buns lying like hospital patients under the glass of the counter".

Horrid flat.

Horrid horrid call.

Horrid boys become horrid men.

How horrid!

Isn't it horrid?

It was horrid.

Horrid, horrid, and let me say again, horrid.

It's perfectly horrid.