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  • It had a hideously thick taste, smoky, and so hot it burned my tongue.†   (source)
  • What had been served by the gallantry of Percy and Eddie — by their bravery, their hideous deaths?†   (source)
  • But the sound is hideous, flies against a pane of glass.†   (source)
  • The human race is hideous.†   (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)
  • I was about to press the emergency stop button when I heard hideous wailing from the back row.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • If she rode this hard all night, Tally thought, maybe tomorrow she could sleep the hideous daylight away.†   (source)
  • The smell was hideous.†   (source)
  • Everything becomes soaked in a hideous and wondrous slowness.†   (source)
  • Now, where is your sister and that hideous baby?†   (source)
  • He fell asleep contemplating hideous revenges and arose from bed three hours later feeling distinctly unrested.†   (source)
  • "Hideous, right?" she said.†   (source)
  • There were hideous bright red patches on her cheeks and forehead.†   (source)
  • They're all hideous.†   (source)
  • It seemed like a miracle, that even here in a place that looked deserted, a place like a madhouse or a prison, where the most hideous crimes took place, the water should be hot, the tiles and porcelain should be clean, without smells, without bugs.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As if in answer, there was a hideous ripping sound and the crackling of some great fire.†   (source)
  • The corpse on the floor before Langdon was hideous.†   (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)
  • She wasn't hideous or anything like that.†   (source)
  • And thanks to my poor eating habits, his hideous face would eventually resemble the craters of the moon.†   (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)
  • It was hideously noisy, for one thing, and the machinists didn't really like sharing the cramped quarters with anyone else.†   (source)
  • I have unearthed the remains of a hideous sacrifice.†   (source)
  • She could see through his missing cheek to his upper and lower molars, and the tongue glistening, and hideously long.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "It's hideous," said Peony with a sneer.†   (source)
  • It was the most hideous thing she had ever seen.†   (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)
  • With an ugly chill against his backbone, Matt stared at the hideously painted face.†   (source)
  • Some hideous story too about Platt and a belt, an attic room in some country house, bound hands, a makeshift noose: ugliness.†   (source)
  • The fabric is hideous, like the burlap bag potatoes come in.†   (source)
  • When he first sees me, he blanches, like I'm some hideous Creature from the Black Lagoon.†   (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)
  • The money belt is hideous, flesh-colored and bunchy.†   (source)
  • There was nothing he could do now, but still it was a mistake and a hideous waste.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Sometimes they were teachers who jumped on us Mexicans as if we were born with a hideous stain.†   (source)
  • It's all like some kind of hideously gross nightmare.†   (source)
  • "Hideous," I say.†   (source)
  • Instead of being white and clear, the whites of her eyes had a hideous yellow cast, and made me think at once of a toilet into which someone had just urinated.†   (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)
  • They were small, hairless, hideous creatures, easily startled, full of anxiety, and prone to a most grating high-pitched bark.†   (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)
  • It folded its wings and stood upright as it turned its hideous head toward the car.†   (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)
  • A place or a time is hantu, and a quality of being is kuntu: beautiful, hideous, or lame, for example.†   (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)
  • A huge and hideous creature rose from the surface.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In another moment, a .36-caliber bullet would explode in his face, and the hot black powder would, at such close range, not only kill him instantly but also burn his flesh a hideous black.†   (source)
  • It felt like a hideous dream.†   (source)
  • And always Ultima was near me, caring for every turn I made in the progress of that hideous journey.†   (source)
  • A hideous, tortured face screamed at him.†   (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)
  • They just married the man their parents told them to marry, and hoped he wasn't too hideous.†   (source)
  • "I thought you might have lost yourself in this hideous place," he said.†   (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)
  • His face was hideously swollen; splotches of deep, ink-black frostbite covered his nose and cheeks.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Annie thought it looked hideous, outrageous.†   (source)
  • He paid the man and they got out and walked into the lobby, which was large and hideous, with mirrors and chairs.†   (source)
  • Being sold to a brothel was always a hideous fate, but not usually a death sentence.†   (source)
  • My voice kind of drifted off as I reread what I'd written on the three notes: Yo, Darth Hideous.†   (source)
  • How can normal people afford to live in such hideously expensive places?†   (source)
  • In the lobby, I passed some girls in hideous baby blue bridesmaids dresses, complete with big bows on the back, as well as someone wheeling a big ice sculpture depicting wedding bells.†   (source)
  • I couldn't tell what was hip and what was hideous, or what was sane or insane.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps born 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You led me to believe you were hideous, a monster.†   (source)
  • THERE'S A HIDEOUS scraping noise.†   (source)
  • For his own part, Private Martin could think only of the horrors of war "in all their hideousness."†   (source)
  • "Only that his mother made it for him last winter, and we all agreed it was the most hideous accessory in Paris," Rashmi says.†   (source)
  • Billy, after all, had contemplated torture and hideous wounds at the beginning and the end of nearly every day of his childhood.†   (source)
  • Even if I must be the outcast, cursed by the rules of his hideous fable.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Major — de Coverley, a Spartan in adversity, did not flinch once throughout the whole hideous ordeal.†   (source)
  • It slithered across the glossy planks of the oak floor, leaving a hideous trail of bloody ooze behind it.†   (source)
  • That one in the hideous jacket with the epaulets.†   (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)
  • "I'm hideous, aren't I?" croaked Mum.†   (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)
  • No. This is all some hideous dream.†   (source)
  • The bullet bra, though hideous and scratchy, did fit.†   (source)
  • There was a hideous yell, and the leaping shape thudded to the ground; the elvish arrow had pierced its throat.†   (source)
  • I'm glad she did, because I thought they were hideous.†   (source)
  • Ray's father had a membership, and he was with Ray that day, working off the tensions of a hideous law exam.†   (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)
  • You're the most hideous creature I could ever have imagined.†   (source)
  • The blockhouses were hideous remnants of the island defenders' dedication in a cause they knew was lost.†   (source)
  • It's so prominent, so red and hideous, I think miserably.†   (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)
  • That necklace was hideous.†   (source)
  • Something hideous they are running from but know they can never escape.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • This was a spike made of bone that stuck out of the back of the most hideous beast I had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Hideous wrecks were referred to as "spills"; jockeys hurled into the ground were "unseated."†   (source)
  • But was this hideous thing conceived, or was it created?†   (source)
  • Though the results are hideous, everything goes much faster now, and we have work for only three scribes and three machines.†   (source)
  • She remembered every gruesome and hideous detail of the rape.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, of course it's hideous.†   (source)
  • But on that terrible path on that hideous night, what could we two horses do?†   (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)
  • There was no way of knowing how far back down the caves this hideous, impossible creature stretched.†   (source)
  • Uuurggghhhh, I look hideous.†   (source)
  • Biggrin looked hideous indeed.†   (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)
  • The stilettos, as always, are the exclamation point on an ensemble that screams Hideous!†   (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)
  • GEORGE: Hideous gifts.†   (source)
  • Sue reared up on her hind legs as the hideous creature, more wolf than dog, bared its teeth, its hackles straight up.†   (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)
  • It was just hideous.†   (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)
  • But that didn't keep them from gathering for miles around and making the nights hideous with their howlings and snarlings.†   (source)
  • His face was working, from his throat came those dry hideous sobs.†   (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)
  • You mean that fat hideous red-skinned heathen woman?†   (source)
  • His eyes were hideously swollen.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Hideous.†   (source)
  • Thinking then that those lines, those reverberant lines with their miniature, sorrowing music of mortality and time, would be as familiar to an American librarian as anything, as household objects are, or a patriotic anthem, or one's own flesh, Sophie felt her lips part to say, Because I could not stop for Death ...She was hideously nauseated.†   (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)
  • His hair was cropped and he was pockmarked, squat, and 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)
  • That's a hideous thing for a man in the prime of life to have to know.†   (source)
  • She had always thought it hideous bi.†   (source)
  • He listens as much as he performs, a look of hideous, powerful rapture on his face.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Am I hideous, Jane?"
    "Very, sir: you always were, you know."   (source)
    hideous = horrible or offensive
  • This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.   (source)
    hideous = ugly or offensive
  • I wish I were in a quiet island with only you; and trouble, and danger, and hideous recollections removed from me.   (source)
    hideous = horrible
  • Bertha Mason, the true daughter of an infamous mother, dragged me through all the hideous and degrading agonies which must attend a man bound to a wife at once intemperate and unchaste.   (source)
  • I was rich enough now — yet poor to hideous indigence: a nature the most gross, impure, depraved I ever saw, was associated with mine, and called by the law and by society a part of me.   (source)
  • I wanted to ask him plainly if he really believed it was she who had made last night's hideous attempt; and if so, why he kept her wickedness a secret.   (source)
    hideous = horrible or frightening
  • Oh, Adele will go to school — I have settled that already; nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall —   (source)
    hideous = horrible
  • seeing a hideous future opening to me — I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter-in-law.   (source)
  • His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion!   (source)
    hideously = horribly
  • I looked at my arms, sure that they would be hideously scarred, but they seemed fine.†   (source)
  • Her hands clawed at her blackened throat, which had a hideously swelled look.†   (source)
  • I was hideously frightened of the empty yard.†   (source)
  • All my old friends, the gunslinger thought, and smiled hideously.†   (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)
  • The bodies were hideously uncovered, strewn in obscene contortions across the glittering table.†   (source)
  • Their gray faces were hideously painted with rouge and lipstick.†   (source)
  • She's probably some woman who goes around saying stuff like that to guys who are hideously ugly.†   (source)
  • It's hideously expensive, of course, but worth it.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (With hideously false enthusiasm) Right!†   (source)
  • It's hideously difficult, but she can do it brilliantly, can't you, Fee?†   (source)
  • I had a glimpse of him from her mind, hideously exaggerated.†   (source)
  • The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear.†   (source)
  • I got a hideously dowdy and itchy burgundy outfit.†   (source)
  • It was funny, terribly funny, hideously funny.†   (source)
  • The getting-up-early-and-working-hideously-hard part.†   (source)
  • His fair and pleasant face was hideously changed; a raging fire was in his eyes.†   (source)
  • "We could go back into the realms and make you hideously ugly," Felicity says.†   (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)
  • His eyes, piglike and the color of tobacco leaf, were hideously swollen.†   (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 seemed hideously ironic that the puzzle pieces would fit together just in time for all of them to be destroyed.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • Because I'm hideously deformed.†   (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)
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