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  • adjective comparative form of horrid: more horrid

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Examples

  • “Horrid fellow, and ‘horrider bellow,’” put in Mistigris.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • "It gets horrider and horrider," Nesta said after two or three days of it.

    Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

  • "Well, I declare!" she cried, "I do think everyone is horrid, but I think Max is just a _little_ horrider than the rest!"

    Princess Polly At Play Amy Brooks

  • While this fact, of course, only served to make her horrider still.

    Linda Condon Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • "I guess you think it would be a good deal horrider not to be," said Dan.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • I always knew you were a horrid old man and you are a lot horrider than I thought you were.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

  • The tougher and horrider they came, the better they suited me -- so I thought.

    The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909

  • "I guess you think it would be a good deal horrider not to be," said Dan.

    The Story Girl 1908

  • A good deal of aboriginal amateurishness has been evaporating as the woman doctor has been taking the place of the time-honoured amateur dispenser of brimstone and treacle, and even horrider things.

    G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904

  • I knew it would be a most horrid thing to do, but it was even horrider than I thought.

    Set in Silver 1901

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