All 14 Uses of
hideous
in
Frankenstein
- A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.†
Chpt 5 *
- I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty, and my bedroom was also freed from its hideous guest.†
Chpt 5
- A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.†
Chpt 7
- I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.†
Chpt 13
- My person was hideous and my stature gigantic.†
Chpt 15
- Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?†
Chpt 15
- I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me.†
Chpt 15
- "'Hideous monster!†
Chpt 16
- What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.†
Chpt 17
- I remembered, shuddering, the mad enthusiasm that hurried me on to the creation of my hideous enemy, and I called to mind the night in which he first lived.†
Chpt 21
- The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred.†
Chpt 23
- My own strength is exhausted, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.†
Chpt 23
- The work was soon finished; in a few minutes a tumultuous sea rolled between me and my enemy, and I was left drifting on a scattered piece of ice that was continually lessening and thus preparing for me a hideous death.†
Chpt 24
- Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening