horribile dictu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horribile dictu (literally “horrible to say”).

Adverb

horribile dictu (not comparable)

1. 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

horrible to say

• French: horribile dictu (fr)
• German: horribile dictu (de)
• Hungarian: horribile dictu (hu)