hideously
Example Sentences
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When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
He’s just a hideously rich guy who wants to be president; this has never happened before, and would surely set a new precedent.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
It crashed, hideously, and the British taxpayer had to bail it out.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
Days afterward he can tolerate sunlight and eat food, but his other vampire powers are hideously and hilariously irregular.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2023
The gasping pits and poisonous mounds grew hideously clear.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
