adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a horrible/nasty/horrific accident
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We narrowly avoided a nasty accident.
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‘This was an absolutely horrific accident,’ said an ambulance spokesman.
a nasty/horrible bug
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It was a really nasty bug.
a terrible/horrible/grim fate
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The crew of the ship met a terrible fate.
bad/unpleasant/horrible etc
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The smell in the shed was awful.
horrible/disturbing
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A horrible thought struck her: could he be having an affair?
taste horrible/awful/disgusting/foul
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The tea tasted horrible.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I remember it as horrible , with a smell of cold cabbage seeming to come from the upholstery.
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Whether Carthage or London, the poem's cities are seen as horrible , life-denying.
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They didn't have to be as horrible as the lot that had just left.
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Carol As horrible as big George.
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She says they're not half as horrible as they look!
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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
how
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You don't get them writing albums about how horrible it is being adored!
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And, knowing full well how horrible it would be to work a full year in Okinawa, they drank.
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She suddenly thought. How horrible !
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He waited for somebody to point out how horrible this was.
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Anyone who has ever smelt an addled egg will know just how horrible that would be.
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I miss the farm, but I could go on for hours about how horrible it was, how brutal it was.
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Can't you see how horrible he is?
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The only other way over to the mainland is the basket lift and you know how horrible that is.
more
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It was a more horrible sight than anyone could imagine - a hell-hound sent by the devil.
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It was much more horrible than that.
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Our fate is to be even more horrible than to be frogmarched out of Downing street.
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The dead body had been an ugly thing, but alive, it was much more horrible .
most
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But it had stopped Lord Woodleigh in the most horrible of ways.
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I remember one with the most horrible wound that I ever saw.
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One of the most horrible sights I had ever seen.
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It was the most horrible that there could be.
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And worst and most horrible is the first morning.
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She serves up the most horrible brown muck for our meals.
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The ground radio blurted out the most horrible crimes.
really
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I du n no why he did that, but when I heard Marie tell that, I felt really horrible .
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It was horrible , really horrible ....
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You've been, like, really horrible .
so
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It was only that she couldn't stay in the house while mummy was being so horrible .
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Well, sir, what they saw inside, it just tore their hearts out, it was so horrible .
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But it does seem so horrible to me that he will be, with them, near them, at the cottage.
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This was a secret she harbored, that she should dare compare her situation to something so horrible .
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But being left alone was so horrible too.
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Jen got all excited about it because it was so horrible .
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He can't complain about people not liking him when he's so horrible to them.
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This death comes without pain and is not so horrible .
too
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It would be too horrible if he was going to be cooped up alone like this every day.
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They can not accept the truth, because it is too horrible .
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She wanted to cry, but it was too horrible for crying.
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It was put away in a dark basement because it was too horrible .
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Much of it, Mr Marr said, was just too horrible to tell me.
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The city alternative was too horrible to contemplate.
■ NOUN
crime
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Embezzlement paled in comparison with whatever horrible crime Gleeson had committed.
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Caraway did say before the trial that she wondered if Simpson could have committed such a horrible crime .
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The ground radio blurted out the most horrible crimes .
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In the final act Ricardo confronts his son with his horrible crimes .
death
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Did you get to die a horrible death with giant ants gnawing at your body?
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The city's pet-loving Bohemians are obsessed by the horrible death of a woman mauled by a mastiff.
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Before the Second World War, wards were filled with patients close to a horrible death from infections of the blood.
experience
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We told her nothing of our horrible experience .
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He basically had three horrible experiences planned for him.
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It had been a pretty horrible experience but he was very pleased with himself.
feeling
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It was a horrible feeling being that far ahead and nursing my lead.
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And when I went out yesterday I had this horrible feeling some one was watching me all the time.
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After a very short time we all felt a horrible feeling of being watched and an intangible atmosphere of dread and doom.
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This morning, I had a horrible feeling that the news might be something to do with me.
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And I have a horrible feeling he's taken twenty tapes with him.
thing
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It's quite a horrible thing when you've worked on something so hard, but you have to go through it.
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But I have brought myself to do horrible things .
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I failed the Eleven-Plus - that horrible thing and that made me feel I wasn't any good.
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To me, that is a horrible thing .
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It was a horrible thing , a terrible thing, which could have deranged anybody in my opinion.
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Why do you have such a horrible thing in such a lovely store?
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Dig deep enough into Cud's sordid past and you discover many horrible things .
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If Charlie had been there, I would never had said such horrible things to him.
things
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Dig deep enough into Cud's sordid past and you discover many horrible things .
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But I have brought myself to do horrible things .
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She was running, that was all - running as if she could run away from all the horrible things that had happened.
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If Charlie had been there, I would never had said such horrible things to him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a horrible crime
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Danny's such a horrible little brat.
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Her husband was a horrible man - lazy, and always drunk.
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I really don't like her at all - she's horrible !
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I think I'll go out if you're just going to be horrible to me.
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It was really horrible coming home and finding all our things had been stolen.
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She got some horrible kind of stomach flu.
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The pain was horrible .
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There was a horrible moment when she thought she had left all her files on the train.
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This stuff tastes horrible !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I am absolutely sure the decision to have an abortion for social reasons is a horrible one for these women.
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It's quite a horrible thing when you've worked on something so hard, but you have to go through it.
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It's very cold and horrible down here at the moment.
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Of course, at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way.
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One is horrible and the other might be the best ever in football.
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This was a horrible , horrible place.
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We told her nothing of our horrible experience.
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You make your players look horrible .