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- He paid the man and they got out and walked into the lobby, which was large and hideous, with mirrors and chairs.†
p. 12.2 *
- But many others were still visible, had turned into lushes or junkies or had embarked on a nerve-rattling pursuit of the perfect psychiatrist; were vindictively married and progenitive and fat; were dreaming the same dreams they had dreamed ten years before, clothed these in the same arguments, quoted the same masters; and dispensed, as they hideously imagined, the same charm they had possessed before their teeth began to fail and their hair began to fall.†
p. 29.6hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- He had despised Eric's manhood by treating him as a woman, by telling him how inferior he was to a woman, by treating him as nothing more than a hideous sexual deformity.†
p. 46.7
- Rufus smiled, watching him, bent over the sink, under the hideous light.†
p. 54.7
- Their domestic life, which involved a hideous amount of drinking, made it difficult for her to get there on time and also caused her to look more and more disreputable.†
p. 54.9
- Her face was hideous, was unutterably beautiful with grief.†
p. 59.4
- Now that it stared them so hideously in the face, each could see how desperately the other had been trying to avoid this confrontation.†
p. 60.1hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- Which was also, however, his father's name, and Eric, therefore, encountered, very often and very soon, the hideous obsequiousness of people who deposed him but who did not dare to say so.†
p. 200.9
- For it was no longer merely the world—there was something unspoken between them, something unspeakable, undone, and hideously desired.†
p. 203.8hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- There were no standards for him because he could not accept the definitions, the hideously mechanical jargon of the age.†
p. 212.9
- He lit a cigarette and stood in the vestibule, while the hideous outskirts of Paris rolled by.†
p. 229.9
- This thought filled him with a hideous, unwilling resentment: he remembered Yves' hostile adventures with the girls of the Latin Quarter and St. Germain-des-Pres.†
p. 239.1
- At Twelfth Street and Seventh Avenue she made the driver carry her one block more, to the box office of the Loew's Sheridan; then she paid him and walked out and actually climbed the stairs to the balcony of this hideous place of worship, and sat down.†
p. 283.2
- It was as though, hideously, after a long and fruitless voyage, he had come home, to find that he had become a stranger.†
p. 294.9hideously = in an extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening manner
- why did they suffer so hideously?†
p. 311.8
- And it's hideous.†
p. 338.8
- And when we don't, it's hideous.†
p. 339.1
- Others were on the steps, going down, coming up, stationary, peering at each other like half-blinded birds and setting up a hideous whirr, as of flying feathers and boastful wings.†
p. 401.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)