Thesaurus / hideous
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There’s Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the hideous yet hapless Trumpist who mentored hatemonger Stephen Miller.
MAGA MORON MO BROOKS PROVES ALABAMA ISN’T SENDING ITS BESTMOLLY JONG-FASTMAY 13, 2021THE DAILY BEASTFor others, it’s an ugly graveyard, the evidence of one of our nation’s most hideous acts of industrial hubris, damning the Southwest’s largest free-flowing artery, the Colorado River.
“CAN I THROW TRASH INTO LAKE POWELL?”SUNDOGMAY 4, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEYou can draw the line from Andy Warhol to these hideous, hundred-and-whatever storied towers full of super rich semi-residents along the southern edge of Central Park.
HOW DOES NEW YORK CITY KEEP REINVENTING ITSELF? (BONUS)KURT ANDERSENMARCH 21, 2021FREAKONOMICSAs hideous as it is now, to Peinado and others there’s no way to imagine it getting anything but worse.
WHAT’S BEHIND THE EFFORT TO RECALL COUNCIL PRESIDENT JEN CAMPBELLSCOTT LEWISFEBRUARY 9, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOSomehow, a campus I once thought hideous has become beautiful to me.
FIRST-YEAR FALL, OFF CAMPUSKATIE MCLEANDECEMBER 18, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWAristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEOn the upper part of each of these posts was a rude carving of a hideous human face with prominent teeth.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEA hideous old crone covered with rags knelt beside the Duchesss, who on leaving the church offered her holy water.
HONEY-BEEANATOLE FRANCEDuring all this time they howl continually in a most discordant manner, and make the most hideous faces.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERIn the second part of the poem the lady is threatened by an unwelcome suitor, in the person of a hideous giant.
THE THREE DAYS' TOURNAMENTJESSIE L. WESTONWORDS RELATED TO HIDEOUS
- abnormal
- atrocious
- desperate
- devilish
- diabolical
- disgraceful
- dreadful
- egregious
- evil
- fiendish
- flagitious
- foul
- freakish
- frightful
- grotesque
- gruesome
- heinous
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- horrendous
- horrible
- horrifying
- inhuman
- intolerable
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- morbid
- obscene
- odious
- ominous
- outrageous
- preposterous
- satanic
- scandalous
- teratoid
- terrible
- uncanny
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- vicious
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- abnormal
- ailing
- brooding
- dark
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- ghastly
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- pessimistic
- saturnine
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- unnatural
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- unusual
- unwholesome
- angry
- atrocious
- bad
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- base
- beastly
- calamitous
- corrupt
- damnable
- depraved
- destructive
- disastrous
- execrable
- flagitious
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- harmful
- hateful
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- loathsome
- low
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- no good
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- offensive
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- poison
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- reprobate
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- spiteful
- stinking
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unpropitious
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrathful
- wrong
- alarming
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- atrocious
- awesome
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- chilling
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- grabber
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- fairy
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- atrocious
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- grody
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- grungy
- harrowing
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- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- horrifying
- nasty
- offensive
- raunchy
- repulsive
- shocking
- stinking
- synthetic
- tough
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unsightly
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