All 7 Uses of
hideous
in
Bleak House
- On our going into the entry and ringing a bell, a very hideous boy came out of a sort of office and looked at us over a spiked wicket.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- The servant shrinks into a corner, into a corner of that hideous archway, with its deadly stains contaminating her dress; and putting out her two hands and passionately telling him to keep away from her, for he is loathsome to her, so remains for some moments.†
Chpt 16-18
- "You're a damned rogue," says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it.†
Chpt 19-21
- Now, my dear Mr. George," says Grandfather Smallweed, winking at the lawyer hideously as he releases him, "I am ready for your kind assistance, my excellent friend!"†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. Smallweed is at once permitted so far to assert his supremacy as to be carried on a visit of sentiment into the next house and upstairs into Miss Flite's deserted room, where he looks like a hideous bird of prey newly added to her aviary.†
Chpt 31-33
- The same wan day peeps in at Sir Leicester pardoning the repentant country in a majestically condescending dream; and at the cousins entering on various public employments, principally receipt of salary; and at the chaste Volumnia, bestowing a dower of fifty thousand pounds upon a hideous old general with a mouth of false teeth like a pianoforte too full of keys, long the admiration of Bath and the terror of every other community.†
Chpt 40-42
- Then, indeed, does she captivate all hearts by her condescension, by her girlish vivacity, and by her skipping about as in the days when the hideous old general with the mouth too full of teeth had not cut one of them at two guineas each.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening