All 7 Uses of
hideous
in
The House of Mirth
- "Oh, dear, I'm so hot and thirsty—and what a hideous place New York is!"†
Chpt 1.1 *
- As she entered her bedroom, with its softly-shaded lights, her lace dressing-gown lying across the silken bedspread, her little embroidered slippers before the fire, a vase of carnations filling the air with perfume, and the last novels and magazines lying uncut on a table beside the reading-lamp, she had a vision of Miss Farish's cramped flat, with its cheap conveniences and hideous wall-papers.†
Chpt 1.3
- Then, drawing back with a little smile of warning—"I shall look hideous in dowdy clothes; but I can trim my own hats," she declared.†
Chpt 1.6
- Yes, but scandal with it—a hideous mustering of tongues.†
Chpt 1.13
- He glanced at the foolish pink-faced clock that was drumming out this hideous hour.†
Chpt 1.14
- Can you imagine looking into your glass some morning and seeing a disfigurement—some hideous change that has come to you while you slept?†
Chpt 1.14
- He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening