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adjective

Hideous adj.

Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous and hideous spectacle."

Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. "Hideous cries."

Hateful; shocking. "Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver."

Synonyms: Frightful; ghastly; grim; grisly; horrid; dreadful; terrible.

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"Hideous" Quotes from Famous Books

... Anne-fied, and I thought I should like them. But, ugh! after the first three or four mornings! Sam Weller's description of them as "having a taste of warm flat-irons" conveys only a faint idea of their hideous nauseousness. If anything could make a sick man get well quickly, it would be the knowledge that he must drink a glassful of them every day until he was recovered. I drank them neat for six consecutive ...

— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... a handsome man of about forty-three, with a romantic scar slashed down his left cheek, a startling scar that must have meant hideous agony to him, and yet, here in the end, had made his face beautiful, by the presence in it ...

— October Vagabonds • Richard Le Gallienne

... the hideous Sinaitic shore seem to reach their climax. The mountains become huge rubbish-heaps, without even colour to clothe their indecently nude forms; and each strives with its neighbour for the prize of repulsiveness. The valleys are mere ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... leap out upon them, out of the darkness—the shadow of a man. There was a moment's hideous clamour of the brakes, a sickening swerve of the machine, a man's shout, a sudden instant's flash of gleaming trunks brought sharply into focus, and then a slow, gradual letting down of her side of the car, inch by inch. She grasped the arm ...

— Stubble • George Looms

... one's head that there can be such things in the world. The ugly ingrain carpet, the ungraceful frame of the small glass in the pier, the abominable portraits on the walls, the disagreeable paper with which they were hung, the hideous lamps on the mantelpiece;—wherever the eye looked, it came back with uneasy discomfort. Philip's eye came back to the fire; and that was not pleasant to see; for the fireplace was not properly cared for, the coals were lifeless, and evidently more economical than useful. ...

— Nobody • Susan Warner

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