All 10 Uses
hideous
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The Phantom of the Opera
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- Why, he, the man who hides behind that hideous mask of death!†
Chpt 9 *
- And, drawing himself up to his full height, with his hand on his hip, wagging the hideous thing that was his head on his shoulders, he roared, 'Look at me!†
Chpt 12
- ...As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back ...but, now that you know my hideousness, you would run away for good...So I shall keep you here!†
Chpt 12
- My lies were as hideous as the monster who inspired them; but they were the price of my liberty.†
Chpt 12
- Hideous thoughts flashed through Raoul's congested brain.†
Chpt 15
- Above their heads, Mme. Giry's three teeth were clashing in a noisy contest, full of hideous interjections.†
Chpt 16
- The way in which he spoke of his love affairs only increased my alarm, for I foresaw the cause of fresh and more hideous tragedies in this event to which he alluded so boastfully.†
Chpt 21
- And the monster laughed so loudly and hideously that we could no longer distinguish Christine's supplicating cries!†
Chpt 23hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- But he had obstinately declined, and had uttered hideous threats against all the members of the human race!†
Chpt 25
- He was seen at the fair of Nijni-Novgorod, where he displayed himself in all his hideous glory.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)