Sample Sentences for
hideous
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    The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.  (source)
    hideous = ugly
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    Reports trickled in from the hideous battle raging outside.  (source)
    hideous = terrible in the sense of causing horror
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    Thomas couldn't think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him.  (source)
    hideous = extremely frightening or ugly
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    She then revealed my hideous crime.  (source)
    hideous = extremely ugly or offensive
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    With an ugly chill against his backbone, Matt stared at the hideously painted face.†  (source)
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    For his own part, Private Martin could think only of the horrors of war "in all their hideousness."†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Once again the goblins were stricken in the valley; and they were piled in heaps till Dale was dark and hideous with their corpses.  (source)
    hideous = horrible
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    She could see through his missing cheek to his upper and lower molars, and the tongue glistening, and hideously long.†  (source)
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    You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty.†  (source)
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    To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon.  (source)
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    His buttocks were hideously macerated, his skin flayed down to the exposed gluteal muscles.†  (source)
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    Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia?†  (source)
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    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.  (source)
    hideous = extremely ugly
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