All 4 Uses of
hideous
in
The Pit and the Pendulum
- These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down—down—still down—till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.†
- It seemed evident that mine was not, at least, the most hideous of fates.†
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- To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.†
- The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise.†
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening