The English language has always had "horrible."  From the latin verb, horrere [to tremble], we've been using it to describe the bad things in life (like priests performing dirty sanchezes on small boys) since the dawn of our language. 

In  1857, we officially added "horrid" to the language after a drunken fop shouted it at a tea party held at a plantation in Savannah in reference to the crumpet selection and we thought it was just TOO cute. It essentially means the same thing.

In 1929, Black Monday spawned yet another synonym that's a horr- --horrific.

In 1984, in response to Ronald Reagan's re-election, we came up with "horrendous."  And even though its meaning is also similar, we've avoided redundancy by ratcheting up the intensity of the original meaning (Reagan's re-election fucked over an entire nation, whereas, the dirty sanchez thing only affects one kid at a time).

Ladies and gentlemen, it's 2006 (almost), and the time has come to unveil the new horr-. Due to increasing demand for words to describe how fucked we are, we are proud to announce the hot-off-the-presses horr-.

Horracious.

Welcome the English language horracious, we've been needing you little buddy. You will be a widely-used and much-appreciated addition to our ever-evolving Germanic mish-mash of Latin, Greek, and Erse.

So when you're tossing and turning at night trying to rationalize the corrupt, heartless system we live in, you can rest easy knowing that at least you can lob a new adjective at it.

-Joe