All 6 Uses of
hideous
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- He listens as much as he performs, a look of hideous, powerful rapture on his face.†
Story 1.16 *
- Yet things divined and endured, spectacular moments, hideous things like the black stranger jumping out of the hedge at nine o'clock, all seemed to Cassie to be by their own nature rising-and so alike-and crossing the sky and setting, the way the planets did.†
Story 3.27
- The muscles of his face grouped themselves in hideous luxuriousness, rippled once, then all cleared.†
Story 3.31
- Then he made a hideous face at Virgie, like a silent yell.†
Story 3.32
- She smiled once, seeing before her, screenlike, the hideous and delectable face Mr. King MacLain had made at the funeral, and when they all knew he was next-even he.†
Story 3.32
- But Aldo Scampo still reclined in one of the overstuffed chairs, hideously yawning.†
Story 4.39
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening