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extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

hideous = extremely offensive and/or frightening

hideous = extremely ugly or frightening

Thomas couldn't think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

hideous = extremely frightening or ugly

hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

It seemed evident that mine was not, at least, the most hideous of fates.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

hideous = extremely ugly or offensive

...hundreds of hideous arms grasped at him from every side.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

hideous = ugly and frightening

The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

hideous = ugly

This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

hideous = ugly or offensive

The monstrous Watchers sat there cold and still, revealed in all their hideous shape.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King

hideous = ugly and frightening

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.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

hideous = extremely ugly

hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

Philosophers have reasoned, prophets have denounced, poets have wept and pleaded—and still this hideous Monster roams at large!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
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!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Ah, God, the horror of it, the monstrous, hideous, demoniacal wickedness of it!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
They were the drainage of the great festering ulcer of society; they were hideous to look upon, sickening to talk to.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
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.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
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!
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

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