Sentence examples for horridly from inspiring English sources

The word "horridly" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to describe something done in a terrible or unpleasant manner. Example: "The movie was horridly boring, leaving the audience restless and frustrated." Alternatives include "terribly" or "awfully."

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horridly

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In a horrid manner.

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There the officer stands, big boots and crackling radio horridly out of place in a homely kitchen, as family members exchange accusations.

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But it was a horridly messy fight.

Polonius's sheer purblind irresponsibility as a father is hilariously and horridly emphasised in Oliver Ford Davies's superb performance by his habit of drifting off into donnishly absent-minded world of his own – especially when making crucial and intrusive decisions about his children.

The Chiefs lost — to the Raiders, again — in horridly droopy fashion, downgrading themselves from third to fourth in the playoff standings.

The body's impossible, unreal presence functions as a horridly exaggerated emblem of how mental anguish, the grief for a buried alternative life, might be viscerally present in a marriage.

His nine dancers — with their isolations of body-parts and their hyperextensions — might belong to an alien species, and he coldly examines the individual quirks of each (Just look how horridly weird this one is! And this!) before moving on.

There's plenty of movement in "Pippin" (Music Box Theater) — the central device of Diane Paulus's staging is that the story is told in circus terms — but Mr. Walker's choreography, in the Bob Fosse tradition, makes even the motions of warfare horridly sexed-up.

"They were horridly warm, as if they tasted of death".

It was a bat-out-of-hell kickstart to his career, horridly impressive as a mood piece and influential in pushing the envelope by challenging censors around the world to define boundaries on depictions of sexual violence.

When he rebuilt Babylon in 1982 (horridly – concrete everywhere), just like Nebuchadnezzar, he wrote his name on bricks in a bid for immortality.

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