All 4 Uses of
hideous
in
The Idiot
- Oh, how mean and hideous of him to feel this conviction, this presentiment†
Chpt 2.5
- She opened her mouth wide with the pain, and I saw the beast lying across her tongue, and out of its body, which was almost bitten in two, came a hideous white-looking substance, oozing out into Norma's mouth; it was of the consistency of a crushed black-beetle just then I awoke and the prince entered the room.†
Chpt 3.5
- One of the murderers suddenly changed into a woman before your very eyes; then the woman was transformed into a hideous, cunning little dwarf; and you believed it, and accepted it all almost as a matter of course—while at the same time your intelligence seemed unusually keen, and accomplished miracles of cunning, sagacity, and logic!†
Chpt 3.10 *
- Mr. Hippolyte has had letters, too, and all from the individual whose name begins with an A.," smirked Lebedeff, with a hideous grin.†
Chpt 4.6
Definition:
extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening