Modifies a noun

• crowd: That idle, horrid, cynical crowd is coming from Long Island, and I _don't_ want her to marry any of them.

• feeling: Went in, had that horrid feeling about what number pump was I at?

• noise: Why should they make such a horrid noise about things?

• stuff: We finished off my date wine, horrid stuff, but we toasted the new year & our wives and those at home.

• thing: I've seen some horrid things with frames in the past.

• crime: Perhaps you should read about Hindley and Brady's exceptionally horrid crimes.

Modifying Another Word

• perfectly: What a perfectly horrid position I might have been in, with poor Clarence on the back fence!

• pretty: Speaking of which, that is also pretty horrid too.

• rather: Ed. ) Dave Steel and mates from Aces went to a rather horrid Chamonix.

• quite: He is an unpleasant man, quite horrid, a very nasty man.

• so: I can't think what made him so horrid.

• really: I once ate a chocolate dog treat and it was really horrid.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: You can so much as get dressed without feeling horrid from the humidity.

• look: He showed me where his itchy parts were with all the hair growing back through, it looked horrid!

• sound: Heather Says: April 23rd, 2005 at 2:01 pm No saliva sounds horrid.

• smell: Beside she didn't like him, he smelled horrid, and his armor was dirty and old.

• taste: Don't burn the spices or the sauce will taste horrid - sprinkle on a few drops of water if you're worried.