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horrendously en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /həˈɹɛndəsli/

Etymology

Etymology tree English horrendous Middle English -ly English -ly English horrendously From horrendous + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a horrendous manner.
   • The car handled horrendously when I took it for a test drive.
   • Mean-times, spelling and pronunciation are horrendously uncircumvoluted and the English vocabulary simply oozes with unloquaciousness. Irregardless of whether I say “wreck a nice beach” or “recognize speech,” you know what I mean, unless I say it too fast. 2007, David F. Latham, “English Difficult? Au Contraire”, in American Rambler: 48 Original, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Newspapers Columns, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

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