All 14 Uses of
hideous
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- Every minute, as the train sped on, the colors of things became dingier; the fields were grown parched and yellow, the landscape hideous and bare.
Chpt 2 *hideous = extremely ugly
- Their justice—it was a lie, it was a lie, a hideous, brutal lie, a thing too black and hateful for any world but a world of nightmares.†
Chpt 16
- They were the drainage of the great festering ulcer of society; they were hideous to look upon, sickening to talk to.†
Chpt 17
- Ah, God, the horror of it, the monstrous, hideous, demoniacal wickedness of it!†
Chpt 18
- And now, with this last hideous injustice, its time had come, and it had turned them out bag and baggage, and taken their house and sold it again!†
Chpt 18
- Every day the police net would drag hundreds of them off the streets, and in the detention hospital you might see them, herded together in a miniature inferno, with hideous, beastly faces, bloated and leprous with disease, laughing, shouting, screaming in all stages of drunkenness, barking like dogs, gibbering like apes, raving and tearing themselves in delirium.†
Chpt 23
- Master Freddie stood for a moment or two, gazing about him; then out of the next room a dog emerged, a monstrous bulldog, the most hideous object that Jurgis had ever laid eyes upon.†
Chpt 24
- They had been attracted more by the prospect of disorder than, by the big wages; and they made the night hideous with singing and carousing, and only went to sleep when the time came for them to get up to work.†
Chpt 26
- So for several days he had been going about, ravenous all the time, and growing weaker and weaker, and then one morning he had a hideous experience, that almost broke his heart. He was passing down a street lined with warehouses, and a boss offered him a job, and then, after he had started to work, turned him off because he was not strong enough.†
Chpt 27
- And this was another election in which the Republicans had all the money; and but for that one hideous accident he might have had a share of it, instead of being where he was!†
Chpt 27
- Yet when he had thought of all humanity as vile and hideous, he had somehow always excepted his own family that he had loved; and now this sudden horrible discovery—Marija a whore, and Elzbieta and the children living off her shame!†
Chpt 27
- You have lived so long in the toil and heat that your senses are dulled, your souls are numbed; but realize once in your lives this world in which you dwell—tear off the rags of its customs and conventions—behold it as it is, in all its hideous nakedness!†
Chpt 28
- Philosophers have reasoned, prophets have denounced, poets have wept and pleaded—and still this hideous Monster roams at large!†
Chpt 28
- And Jurgis was a man whose soul had been murdered, who had ceased to hope and to struggle—who had made terms with degradation and despair; and now, suddenly, in one awful convulsion, the black and hideous fact was made plain to him!†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening