horrible

Infinitive complement

see: It was horrible to see Blair backing him on this.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: My hair is starting to feel truly horrible: I am in desperate need of a shampoo!
• utterly: Marvelous and utterly horrible, all at the same time.
• absolutely: Their demons were absolutely horrible, which being decoded means they were marvelously chilling to the spine.
• pretty: It's Monday, which is pretty horrible in itself.
• equally: The alternatives of trapping or poisoning are equally horrible for the hares and are far more indiscriminate.
• rather: There would be a rather horrible note of mockery in telling us something of which we can make nothing.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• say: People don't necessarily have to say something horrible.
• do: You wouldn't do anything horrible like that, would you?

Modifies a noun

• mess: The US and Britain made a horrible mess of Iraq.
• feeling: My job in Birmingham gave me a horrible feeling of wearing the wrong shaped skin everyday.
• stench: I was still a few miles from Mere, when a horrible stench filled the car.
• nightmare: Alex probably hopes to forget this round as one of those horrible nightmares.
• smell: Saturn has a big hole and a horrible smell is spilling out.
• fate: Name the cat G and Exhibit B, who has just saved another cat from a horrible fate.

Used with adjective complement

• smell: I feel healthier, and my kids no longer smell horrible - thats the kind of thing you don't notice until you stop.
• taste: She gave me some herbal medicine and although it tasted horrible, it worked after the first week.
• sound: Dad is currently toying with the idea of setting up a vast caravan site at Shearwater - which sounds horrible to me ears.
• feel: Oh, I feel horrible now, still I expect you know what I mean!
• look: I also have atrophy scarring on both arms which looks horrible due to long term steroid cream use.