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extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening- The beast had hideous fangs.
hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- It is a hideous law that punishes the innocent and defenseless.
- He had a hideous scar running from his forehead to his jaw.
- Thomas couldn't think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- You led me to believe you were hideous, a monster.Alex Flinn -- Beastly
- It seemed evident that mine was not, at least, the most hideous of fates.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- She then revealed my hideous crime.Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
- ...hundreds of hideous arms grasped at him from every side.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
- The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 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
- The monstrous Watchers sat there cold and still, revealed in all their hideous shape.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King
- 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
- How perfectly hideous they are!Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- I'm hideous, aren't I?Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- 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
hideous = extremely offensive and/or frightening
hideous = extremely ugly or frightening
hideous = extremely frightening or ugly
hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
hideous = extremely ugly or offensive
hideous = ugly and frightening
hideous = ugly
hideous = ugly or offensive
hideous = ugly and frightening
hideous = extremely ugly
hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
hideous = extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening