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horridly, adv.|ˈhɒrɪdlɪ|
[f. horrid + -ly2.]
In a horrid manner, or to a horrid degree; dreadfully, frightfully, abominably: often colloq. as a strong intensive before adjectives denoting qualities that are disliked.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 55 That thou dead Coarse..Reuisits thus the glimpses of the Moone..So horridly to shake our disposition. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 88 Idols strangely and horridly shap'd. 1742H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. li. 200 Lord, I am horridly tired of that romantic love and correspondence. 1798Lady Chatham in G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 208 The weather is..horridly bad. 1857Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 309, I was horridly sick and uncomfortable. |