All 25 Uses of
hideous
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Sweet Far Thing
- But I can say with all certainty that walking the length of a ballroom with a book upon one's head and a backboard strapped to one's back while imprisoned in a tight corset, layers of petticoats, and shoes that pinch is a form of torture even Mr. Alighieri would find too hideous to document in his Inferno.†
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- I am hideously jealous.†
Chpt 1 *hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- They are hideous fiends—troglodytes in ringlets!†
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- In a vision I had seen her die, hunted by a hideous wraith from another world, a tracker, that meant to take her soul had she not taken her own life in self-defense.†
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- It is all I can do not to confide to the girl closest to me: "If I should die during tea—asphyxiated by my own corset—please do not let them bury me in such a hideous dress or I shall come back to haunt you."†
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- "Hideous," I say.†
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- I told them what those hideous creatures were truly about.†
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- Yes, those horrid girls, with their hideous burns and coarse manners!†
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- At last, Ann has bested the hideous Cecily Temple.†
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- I'll be on display like some hideous china doll.†
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- It's hideously difficult, but she can do it brilliantly, can't you, Fee?†
Chpt 3hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- Yet they are not like those horrible trackers, those hideous wraiths that steal souls.†
Chpt 3
- After a hideously dull sermon, compliments of the half-dead Reverend Waite, Mrs. Nightwing offers a reward for our saintly endurance by asking our help in preparing for Spence's masked ball.†
Chpt 3hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- I push my friends on and run after, staring only at their backs, not daring to look left or right at the hideous things that swing from the trees.†
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- There's no telling what could be waiting for us in there, and we've already experienced one hideous surprise.†
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- The hideous wraith raises the dagger and it descends again and again, until all that can be seen of the girls is one blood-smeared hand reaching toward the sky, and then, even that falls.†
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- It gives me a shiver to think of Wilhelmina smiling at those hideous stone watchers.†
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- There are a constant drip and the hideous scuttle of the rats' claws.†
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- Hideous.†
Chpt 4
- Carrie offers her the hideous pearl on her finger.†
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- The citizens, living in mortal terror, can no longer draw water from the river, so frightened are they of the hideous beast.†
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- I put my hands to my ears to silence their hideous caws but they crawl under my skin like a poison.†
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- "Follow!" the hideous beasts call.†
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- "Terribly sorry," he says, giving me a smile that seems demonic beneath that hideous mask.†
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- Its face is a hideous living mask, the mouth stretched into a gruesome smile, the fangs as long as my leg.†
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Definition:
extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening