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  • But the sound is hideous, flies against a pane of glass.†   (source)
  • The human race is hideous.†   (source)
  • A hideous leg.†   (source)
  • Richie's pawnshop has long since closed, though a hideous yellow and green sign still marks the site, so far as I know.†   (source)
  • "Because I'm hideously deformed.†   (source)
  • He grabbed a loose rock and slammed it against his skull, again and again, until he looked at his hands and saw a hideous purplish goo that he realized was blood and skin and coal ash, mixed together-then he heard a gunshot and grabbed his head, smearing the goo on his temples.†   (source)
  • If she rode this hard all night, Tally thought, maybe tomorrow she could sleep the hideous daylight away.†   (source)
  • The smell was hideous.†   (source)
  • He fell asleep contemplating hideous revenges and arose from bed three hours later feeling distinctly unrested.†   (source)
  • Now, where is your sister and that hideous baby?†   (source)
  • The only equivalent was if I thought about Thomas waiting to die in some strange country, and as soon as that thought came to mind it made something inside me actually flip over, it was so hideous.†   (source)
  • I was about to press the emergency stop button when I heard hideous wailing from the back row.†   (source)
  • Most of them had enough bulk to warrant a double take, but when she scanned their faces—often scarred, pockmarked, or just plain hideous—there was no spark behind their eyes, no shining kernel of cleverness.†   (source)
  • We've survived hideous times.†   (source)
  • I have unearthed the remains of a hideous sacrifice.†   (source)
  • The corpse on the floor before Langdon was hideous.†   (source)
  • Everything becomes soaked in a hideous and wondrous slowness.†   (source)
  • She could see through his missing cheek to his upper and lower molars, and the tongue glistening, and hideously long.†   (source)
  • Next to each other now, standing, Dodge and the rook whirled, aiming their swords skyward just in time for an attacking seeker to impale itself on them and perish with a hideous howl.†   (source)
  • And thanks to my poor eating habits, his hideous face would eventually resemble the craters of the moon.†   (source)
  • There were hideous bright red patches on her cheeks and forehead.†   (source)
  • She left behind heaps of stuff for Ralph and Dina to deal with, including a few hideous synthetic sweaters Dina had tossed her way at Christmas.†   (source)
  • They named all the clutter and accessories that surrounded what would be the best, most hideous evidence anyone could find—my corpse cut up, my blank and rotting eyes.†   (source)
  • Strangest of all was Enoch, who disappeared into his basement laboratory to perform experimental surgeries on his clay soldiers that would've made Dr. Frankenstein cringe: amputating the limbs from two to make a hideous spider-man of a third, or cramming four chicken hearts into a single chest cavity in an attempt to create a super-clay-man who would never run out of energy.†   (source)
  • He poked his head through the reeds, not all  the way through, just enough for the guys to catch a glimpse of a hideous head covered with black slime.†   (source)
  • As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire.†   (source)
  • The whole morning is hideous.†   (source)
  • With an ugly chill against his backbone, Matt stared at the hideously painted face.†   (source)
  • "It's hideous," said Peony with a sneer.†   (source)
  • Hideous alien shapes seemed to throng about him, the air was thick with musty smells which sidled into his lungs without identifying themselves, and a low irritating hum kept his brain from focusing.†   (source)
  • The fabric is hideous, like the burlap bag potatoes come in.†   (source)
  • Some hideous story too about Platt and a belt, an attic room in some country house, bound hands, a makeshift noose: ugliness.†   (source)
  • I go to confession and they hiss that I'm not in a proper spirit of repentance, that if I were I'd give up this hideous sin.†   (source)
  • His face was hideously swollen; splotches of deep, ink-black frostbite covered his nose and cheeks.†   (source)
  • A radiator clanked in one corner, and the rug on the floor was a hideous embroidery of western sage and cactus — Danny bad already fallen in love with it, Wendy saw.†   (source)
  • And inside that spaceship were three of the most evil, hideous, and merciless spacemen ever to set foot on the roof of a small midwestern elementary school.†   (source)
  • A place or a time is hantu, and a quality of being is kuntu: beautiful, hideous, or lame, for example.†   (source)
  • It was hideously noisy, for one thing, and the machinists didn't really like sharing the cramped quarters with anyone else.†   (source)
  • She's screaming and she's scared and she's going to die, die a hideous miserable death if I don't get to her.†   (source)
  • I was aware of the time slipping away so quickly, like the black road beneath us, and I was hideously afraid that I would never have another chance to be with him like this again — openly, the walls between us gone for once.†   (source)
  • The doctors confirmed that, despite their hideous appearance, the wounds were not fatal.†   (source)
  • Mrs. D. C. Taylor, a frequent visitor to the fair, called Krupp's biggest gun "a fearful hideous thing, breathing of blood and carnage, a triumph of barbarism crouching amid the world's triumphs of civilization."†   (source)
  • But even if they weren't so hideous, their use in his verse tends to be clumsy and heavy-handed, too obviously programmatic.†   (source)
  • "Hideous, right?" she said.†   (source)
  • The iron gates gleam in the sun; they were recently painted a hideous orange but Dr. Dupont says this is only the undercoating, the gates will be painted black again later.†   (source)
  • Despite their father's hideous accident, my father's two brothers were also miners; Clarence worked in the Caretta mine across the mountain from Coalwood, and Emmett in mines around the county.†   (source)
  • There was nothing he could do now, but still it was a mistake and a hideous waste.†   (source)
  • Cheap, nasty franchises all tend to adopt logos with a lot of bright, hideous yellow in them, and so Alameda Street is clearly marked out before him, a gout of radioactive urine ejected south from the dead center of LA.†   (source)
  • When he first sees me, he blanches, like I'm some hideous Creature from the Black Lagoon.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they were teachers who jumped on us Mexicans as if we were born with a hideous stain.†   (source)
  • They were small, hairless, hideous creatures, easily startled, full of anxiety, and prone to a most grating high-pitched bark.†   (source)
  • They just married the man their parents told them to marry, and hoped he wasn't too hideous.†   (source)
  • The usual rumors abound of sexual freedom, sexual slavery, drugs, nudity, mind control, poor hygiene, tax evasion, monkey-worship, torture, prolonged and hideous death.†   (source)
  • It's all like some kind of hideously gross nightmare.†   (source)
  • It was the most hideous thing she had ever seen.†   (source)
  • It folded its wings and stood upright as it turned its hideous head toward the car.†   (source)
  • Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.†   (source)
  • She wasn't hideous or anything like that.†   (source)
  • The money belt is hideous, flesh-colored and bunchy.†   (source)
  • "I thought you might have lost yourself in this hideous place," he said.†   (source)
  • Something hideous they are running from but know they can never escape.†   (source)
  • A huge and hideous creature rose from the surface.†   (source)
  • Instead of leaf shapes and enlarged diagrams of the holes the leaves breathe through and fascinating words like carotene and xanthophyll on the blackboard, there were these hideous, cramped, scorpion-lettered formulas in Mr. Manzi's special red chalk.†   (source)
  • She was a hideous-looking woman, though much younger than Auntie, which I hadn't expected.†   (source)
  • It slithered across the glossy planks of the oak floor, leaving a hideous trail of bloody ooze behind it.†   (source)
  • Suppose the paper would show a hideous beast and the word YOU written over it.†   (source)
  • His buttocks were hideously macerated, his skin flayed down to the exposed gluteal muscles.†   (source)
  • It felt like a hideous dream.†   (source)
  • But he told this woman he had called her number because he had heard she gave good advice and his problem was that he was about to die from a hideous skin disease because a rat had bitten off his nose when he was a baby and the skin grafts didn't take.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps born hideous?†   (source)
  • The lurching, heart-stopping chuckle, hideous in the extreme, turned Roran's stomach cold with fear.†   (source)
  • They're all hideous.†   (source)
  • Seven years later, spending a hideous, sleepless night tossing in bed next to my daughter and the man I had once loved, hindsight brought revelations.†   (source)
  • And it's hideous."†   (source)
  • "They'll be mourning for you soon enough," came a reply from directly above, and this was followed by a hideous cackling laugh very much like someone choking on a fishbone.†   (source)
  • THERE'S A HIDEOUS scraping noise.†   (source)
  • My voice kind of drifted off as I reread what I'd written on the three notes: Yo, Darth Hideous.†   (source)
  • It's so prominent, so red and hideous, I think miserably.†   (source)
  • But just as she starts crooking those sectioned arms around the black boys and they go to ripping at her underside with the mop handles, all the patients start coming out of the dorms to check on what's the hullabaloo, and she has to change back before she's caught in the shape of her hideous real self.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, the bedrooms were the same, Paul's room a shrine to adolescent angst, with posters of obscure quartets taped to the wall, ticket stubs pinned to the bulletin board, the walls painted a hideous dark blue, like a cave.†   (source)
  • He lifted his hand and waved, and I felt my face flush as I put the pot holder back with its hideous brethren.†   (source)
  • I couldn't tell what was hip and what was hideous, or what was sane or insane.†   (source)
  • The bullet bra, though hideous and scratchy, did fit.†   (source)
  • Being sold to a brothel was always a hideous fate, but not usually a death sentence.†   (source)
  • Hideous wrecks were referred to as "spills"; jockeys hurled into the ground were "unseated."†   (source)
  • No. This is all some hideous dream.†   (source)
  • He winced, hand tucked in the pocket of that hideous hoodie like he was doing a Napoleon impression, pressing on the bullet wound that Ringer had given him.†   (source)
  • You led me to believe you were hideous, a monster.†   (source)
  • "Hideous," I say.†   (source)
  • The blockhouses were hideous remnants of the island defenders' dedication in a cause they knew was lost.†   (source)
  • The sun streamed in on us, and he threw back the covers and stripped off everything and got brown in the sun, as we always did every morning, because the nurse came in at eight o'clock, and then the day would become rather hideous.†   (source)
  • The stilettos, as always, are the exclamation point on an ensemble that screams Hideous!†   (source)
  • She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.†   (source)
  • Uuurggghhhh, I look hideous.†   (source)
  • There was a hideous yell, and the leaping shape thudded to the ground; the elvish arrow had pierced its throat.†   (source)
  • And there suddenly, I saw something which startled me, gathering out of the gloom first as a hideous mask, then becoming its three-dimensional reality: a weathered skull.†   (source)
  • The hideous gray uniform made her look much younger than she really was, despite the fact that her womanly curves showed through the design.†   (source)
  • Major — de Coverley, a Spartan in adversity, did not flinch once throughout the whole hideous ordeal.†   (source)
  • But on that terrible path on that hideous night, what could we two horses do?†   (source)
  • She remembered every gruesome and hideous detail of the rape.†   (source)
  • I'm glad she did, because I thought they were hideous.†   (source)
  • And always Ultima was near me, caring for every turn I made in the progress of that hideous journey.†   (source)
  • How can normal people afford to live in such hideously expensive places?†   (source)
  • You're the most hideous creature I could ever have imagined.†   (source)
  • It was a hideous lane like a raw gash in the land, full of muddy ruts where felled trees had been dragged down to the river.†   (source)
  • For his own part, Private Martin could think only of the horrors of war "in all their hideousness."†   (source)
  • The machine hummed on hold, mercifully without hideous background music or updated news reports, for a full three minutes before the commander came on.†   (source)
  • They had called their superiors to report the hideous incident and were instructed to inform the local police and return at once to the embassy.†   (source)
  • Annie thought it looked hideous, outrageous.†   (source)
  • He feared what he might become, his potential for savagery, the hideous ease with which he might embrace vengeance and call it justice.†   (source)
  • Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable.†   (source)
  • It struck me with a slap, a horrid revelation of something hitherto unknown, and hideous; it stamped itself on my mind so that I never forgot it…… Then my father, still looking as though he were ill, put out his good hand to steady himself against the door-post, and turned back into the house.†   (source)
  • That necklace was hideous.†   (source)
  • I'm hideous, aren't I?†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, of course it's hideous.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Hideous gifts.†   (source)
  • But that didn't keep them from gathering for miles around and making the nights hideous with their howlings and snarlings.†   (source)
  • His eyes were hideously swollen.†   (source)
  • This was a spike made of bone that stuck out of the back of the most hideous beast I had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Whether a memory or funny hideous scandal, we will return to it an hour later and retell the story with additions and this time a few judgements thrown in.†   (source)
  • The whiteness of a man's skin or the misguided customs of his land do not exonerate him from hideous deeds, no matter how they have been rationalized and legislated into feigned legitimacy.†   (source)
  • But was this hideous thing conceived, or was it created?†   (source)
  • The hideous truth is, I am scared to death that if he snapped his fingers at me, I might actually come running back to him.†   (source)
  • I pull in across the wide stretch of blacktop and although I have my choice I park perhaps a dozen spaces from the open spots nearest the entrance, and I wish I could obscure myself somehow as I walk to the grandly hideous, domed building, the lone customer heading inside.†   (source)
  • Though the results are hideous, everything goes much faster now, and we have work for only three scribes and three machines.†   (source)
  • Ray's father had a membership, and he was with Ray that day, working off the tensions of a hideous law exam.†   (source)
  • There was no way of knowing how far back down the caves this hideous, impossible creature stretched.†   (source)
  • That one in the hideous jacket with the epaulets.†   (source)
  • Biggrin looked hideous indeed.†   (source)
  • She wasn't gorgeous, but she wasn't hideous, so Landers got back out of the car and went over to chat with her for a couple minutes.†   (source)
  • I felt as if there could suddenly appear behind me something hideous and destructive.†   (source)
  • Sue reared up on her hind legs as the hideous creature, more wolf than dog, bared its teeth, its hackles straight up.†   (source)
  • Mainly, he stared at a computer screen, at an image of a concrete power pole rising from a tangle of gorse bush, quite possibly the most hideous image in the history of a proud service.†   (source)
  • It was just hideous.†   (source)
  • You mean that fat hideous red-skinned heathen woman?†   (source)
  • It was certain that they could not be half as hideous as the imaginative drawings that had filled the papers soon after their coming to Earth!†   (source)
  • She was hideously nauseated.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Hideous.†   (source)
  • These I would glance over to see how the Powers-that-be were mismanaging the world, then look for what was new in the unWar I had just been let out of (usually no mention, although we had been told that we were "saving civilization"), then get down to important matters, i. e., news of the Irish Sweepstakes, plus the possibility that The Stars & Stripes might announce that it had all been a hideous dream and I was entitled to educational benefits after all.†   (source)
  • She had always thought it hideous bi. it when the Herrins stole it off the old man's grave, she was shocked and outraged.†   (source)
  • His hair was cropped and he was pockmarked, squat, and hideous.†   (source)
  • That's a hideous thing for a man in the prime of life to have to know.†   (source)
  • His face was working, from his throat came those dry hideous sobs.†   (source)
  • The memories of the gas chambers at Buchenwald and other Nazi concentration camps, the stories of hideous atrocities which had been refreshed with new illustrations at Nuremberg, and the anguish and suffering which each new military casualty list had brought to thousands of American homes—these were among the immeasurable influences which caused many to react with pain and indignation when a United States Senator deplored the trials and sentences of these merely "despicable" men.†   (source)
  • He listens as much as he performs, a look of hideous, powerful rapture on his face.†   (source)
  • Hideous!†   (source)
  • A small core of contempt for them, of which she was quite unconscious, and which had protected her from sex as surely as if she had been truly hideous, had melted, and she had lost her poise.†   (source)
  • This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.   (source)
    hideous = ugly or offensive
  • Her hands clawed at her blackened throat, which had a hideously swelled look.†   (source)
  • I looked at my arms, sure that they would be hideously scarred, but they seemed fine.†   (source)
  • Her six heads gaped, hideously lumpen, like melted lava stone.†   (source)
  • I was hideously frightened of the empty yard.†   (source)
  • All my old friends, the gunslinger thought, and smiled hideously.†   (source)
  • Their gray faces were hideously painted with rouge and lipstick.†   (source)
  • 8:11 A.M. REX The halls ofBixbyHigh School were always hideously bright on the first day of school.†   (source)
  • I felt hideously empty, and I wanted to see Jacob.†   (source)
  • His eyes, piglike and the color of tobacco leaf, were hideously swollen.†   (source)
  • It's hideously expensive, of course, but worth it."†   (source)
  • It was funny, terribly funny, hideously funny.†   (source)
  • I had a glimpse of him from her mind, hideously exaggerated.†   (source)
  • "She's probably some woman who goes around saying stuff like that to guys who are hideously ugly.†   (source)
  • The getting-up-early-and-working-hideously-hard part.†   (source)
  • It's hideously difficult, but she can do it brilliantly, can't you, Fee?"†   (source)
  • "We could go back into the realms and make you hideously ugly," Felicity says.†   (source)
  • I got a hideously dowdy and itchy burgundy outfit.†   (source)
  • The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (With hideously false enthusiasm) Right!†   (source)
  • What happened to people? why did they suffer so hideously?†   (source)
  • His fair and pleasant face was hideously changed; a raging fire was in his eyes.†   (source)
  • The bodies were hideously uncovered, strewn in obscene contortions across the glittering table.†   (source)
  • On the other, looking hideously withered and misshapen, Walter watched us approach.†   (source)
  • It seemed hideously wrong to me that the numbers remained the same.†   (source)
  • On the last stair, they were hideously noisy; they wanted only to disappear in time.†   (source)
  • But Aldo Scampo still reclined in one of the overstuffed chairs, hideously yawning.†   (source)
  • It was fashioned in the likeness of a snarling black hound, fearsome to behold, but Tyrion had always thought it a great improvement over Clegane's hideously burned face.†   (source)
  • It was the place he had seen in the midst of the blizzard, the dark and booming place where some hideously familiar figure sought him down long corridors carpeted with jungle.†   (source)
  • The blow to his mouth had split open his upper lip and broken six teeth, three of which were embedded in his lower lip, hideously inverting his beautiful smile.†   (source)
  • Limned in stark blacks and whites, Hallorann first thought it was some hideously huge timberwolf that had been driven down from the high country by the storm.†   (source)
  • I am hideously jealous.†   (source)
  • I feel so hideously helpless.†   (source)
  • When he was within a few feet, he stopped, and Mark's eyes traced a path from his booted feet, up his denim-clad legs, his tight plaid shirt, to his face, which was hideously scarred, almost inhuman.†   (source)
  • Hassan's lower lip was hideously busted—he looked like he was chewing a fat wad of tobacco—and his right eye was very nearly swollen shut.†   (source)
  • Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.†   (source)
  • It's just that some people,certain people, who move to Bixby find that the sunlight here is hideously bright.†   (source)
  • The snowmen the squires had built had grown into monstrous giants, ten feet tall and hideously misshapen.†   (source)
  • It was a jet-black vye, its fur badly singed and its face hideously half human as it leapt over the fence of the stable's riding ring and hurled itself at Mr. Morrow.†   (source)
  • The dog was sitting on the gravel between her car door and the door which gave on the porch, its hideously mangled head drooping … but with its eyes fixed unfailingly on the car.†   (source)
  • Her shiny face looked the children over, grinning hideously to reveal a mouthful of smooth crocodile teeth.†   (source)
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