horribile dictu
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin horribile dictu (literally “horrible to say”).
Adverb[edit]
horribile dictu (not comparable)
- Horrible to say; horribly.
- 2011 May 6, Jonathan Dee, “A Midwestern Family’s Withered Roots”, in The New York Times[1]:
- We first meet the Ericksons in 1973, at the wedding of the family’s eldest child, Anita, a small-town beauty for whom marriage and motherhood ultimately become traps more than prizes; her husband is not just a drinker and a poor father but, horribile dictu, a banker who forecloses on local farms even when those farms are owned by Erickson friends or relations.
Translations[edit]
horrible to say
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