horridness

Example Sentences

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My ideas of the greatness of my new home and the horridness of my old one were simplistic and limited.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

My ideas of the greatness of my new home and the horridness of my old one were simplistic and limited.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

It was Copernicus who first calculated that the horridness of any given government is inversely proportionate to the brilliance of the rebel rock music it inspires.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2017

I am wearing my narciss-Spanx, restraining and containing my horridness; why can’t you?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2012

The doe in the clearing goes stiff at sight of my horridness, then remembers her legs and is gone.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner