most horrid
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Sen. William Preston, a South Carolina Whig, called the statue “the most horrid phantasmagoria I have ever beheld.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2023
But perhaps the most horrid place was the kitchen.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2016
A most horrid plot has been discovered of a band of villains counterfeiting the Hampshire currency to a great amount.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail
This nimble lady, otherwise, was fiercely wooed by the King of the Mud-turtles, a most horrid and sprawling shape, but a clever foil—with his army of river-rats, minks and crabs—to the nymphs and wood fairies.
From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
In the lower rooms of this house the mud is a yard deep, and most horrid in quality, and the smell of course dreadful.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
