All 5 Uses of
hideous
in
Howards End
- Horror smote her to the heart, for even she began to suspect that they were at cross-purposes, and that she had commenced her mission by some hideous blunder.†
Part 3 *
- "I may have been deceived by the curate, my dear, but the young fellow who brings the midday post really is fond of me, and has, as a matter of fact—" It had always seemed to her the most hideous corner of old age, yet she might be driven into it herself by the mere pressure of virginity.†
Part 18
- What does one want with dusty economic books, which have made the world no better, or with mother's hideous chiffoniers?†
Part 30
- But Margaret saw Death stripped of any false romance; whatever the idea of Death may contain, the process can be trivial and hideous.†
Part 34
- She had accomplished a hideous act of renunciation and returned to the One.†
Part 34
Definition:
extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening