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What (who) is horrid - definition
TELEVISION SERIES
Overkill (Murder Most Horrid); Overkill (episode); Overkill (Murder Most Horrid episode)
horrid
1.
If you describe something as horrid, you mean that it is very unpleasant indeed. (INFORMAL)
What a horrid smell!
= horrible
ADJ
2.
If you describe someone as horrid, you mean that they behave in a very unpleasant way towards other people. (INFORMAL)
I must have been a horrid little girl...
= horrible
ADJ: oft ADJ to n
Horrid
·adj Rough; rugged; bristling.
II. Horrid ·adj Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
horrid
a.
1.
Frightful, terrible, terrific, horrible, alarming, portentous, formidable, appalling, dire, horrifying, horrific, harrowing, dreadful, fearful, awful, hideous.
2.
(Colloq.) Shocking, offensive, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, odious, disagreeable, unpleasant, vile, abominable.
Wikipedia
Murder Most Horrid
Murder Most Horrid is a British black comedy anthology series starring Dawn French. It was broadcast on BBC Two for four series runs, in 1991, 1994, 1996 and 1999.
Created by Paul Smith, who also co-created Colin's Sandwich (with Terry Kyan, as noted below) and has written for The Brittas Empire, among other programmes, the series starred French as a different character in each episode. Many episodes were directed by Bob Spiers, who also worked with French on The Comic Strip Presents... and French and Saunders.
Examples of use of horrid
1. "They were terrible, absolutely horrid," Bohannon said.
2. She also was caught on tape describing Prime Minister Tony Blair‘s wife, Cherie, as "horrid, horrid, horrid." Other Mahmood stings have caught British notables taking drugs, while stars, including rocker Mick Jagger, have been exposed as adulterers.
3. Sophie is recorded calling the prime minister "President Blair", describing Cherie Blair as "horrid, horrid, horrid", and William Hague as "deformed". September 2001 Mahmood, wearing traditional Muslim clothes, infiltrates a Taliban recruiting meeting in Afghanistan.
4. Somebody said some things that were extremely horrid," she said.
5. Somebody said some things that were extremely horrid,‘‘ she said.