All 3 Uses of

hideous
in
Democracy In America, Volume 1

Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts, and wilde men?†
Chpt 2

But it may more aptly be assimilated to the times of old, and to those hideous eras of Roman oppression, when the manners of the people were corrupted, their traditions obliterated, their habits destroyed, their opinions shaken, and freedom, expelled from the laws, could find no refuge in the land; when nothing protected the citizens, and the citizens no longer protected themselves; when human nature was the sport of man, and princes wearied out the clemency of Heaven before they exhausted the patience of their subjects.†
Chpt 17

His physiognomy is to our eyes hideous, his understanding weak, his tastes low; and we are almost inclined to look upon him as a being intermediate between man and the brutes.†
Chpt 18 *

Definition:

extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening