All 6 Uses of
hideous
in
Brave New World
- "What a hideous colour khaki is," remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopaedic prejudices of her caste.†
p. 62..6 *
- The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanovsky Group, and the men were twins, identically small, black and hideous.†
p. 64..5
- Hideously masked or painted out of all semblance of humanity, they had tramped out a strange limping dance round the square; round and again round, singing as they went, round and round–each time a little faster; and the drums had changed and quickened their rhythm, so that it became like the pulsing of fever in the ears; and the crowd had begun to sing with the dancers, louder and louder; and first one woman had shrieked, and then another and another, as though they were being killed;…†
p. 113..9
- Popé with the blood trickling down from his cut shoulder; and Linda hideously asleep, and the flies buzzing round the spilt mescal on the floor beside the bed; and the boys calling those names as she passed.†
p. 203..9
- They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!†
p. 210..2
- And Tomakin, ex-Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, Tomakin was still on holiday–on holiday from humiliation and pain, in a world where he could not hear those words, that derisive laughter, could not see that hideous face, feel those moist and flabby arms round his neck, in a beautiful world … "What you need," the Savage went on, "is something with tears for a change.†
p. 239..2
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening