horrid
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However its reviewer, Emily Ashby, noted: "If Dennis the Menace set the bar for comical misbehaving, then Horrid Henry smashed it to smithereens and littered his neighbour's yard with it."
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2017
Horrid luck follows losers like a stray dog.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2014
It’s the Horrid King, also known as Moloch, who’s obviously tired of waiting to be sprung from purgatory and is taking matters into his own gnarled hands.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2014
Here, in a 1996 episode of the comedy series Murder Most Horrid, he is pictured between French and a young Minnie Driver.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2014
"Horrid old woman," I said to myself, "to say he had ugly eyes."
From The Boys and I by Molesworth, Mrs.
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