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Definition
extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- No. This is all some hideous dream.Chapter 2 (85% in)
- Quick as liquid silver the dark rises and takes its hideous shape, the gleaming bone of its skeletal face, the hollow, black holes where eyes should be.Chapter 3 (89% in)
- Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof.Chapter 4 (19% in)
- Hideous corpus, female.Chapter 5 (55% in)
- I've never seen anything like it .... some hideous creature."Chapter 7 (81% in)
- They keep coming, their mouths all making the same hideous murmur.Chapter 21 (44% in)
- "We could go back into the realms and make you hideously ugly," Felicity says.Chapter 28 (82% in)
- The most hideous screeches fill the room.Chapter 29 (92% in)
- I shouted, even as the creature's mouth twisted from surprise into a hideous grin.Chapter 30 (56% in)
- She's covered in hideous boils.Chapter 36 (62% in)
- Shrieks and howls, the hideous cries of the damned lash at me.Chapter 38 (27% in)
- The thing's eyes widen, the hideous mouth opens.Chapter 38 (34% in)
There are no more uses of "hideous" in A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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