hideous
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No Triple Crown, no hope of winning the Six Nations title, no end to their hideous run of defeats against Ireland - now standing at 12 and with no discernible sign of it stopping there.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Car manufacturers that continued to churn out hideous gas guzzlers have long since vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Most of us have received at least one Christms present that missed the mark - a jumper that doesn't fit, a hideous ornament or a perfume you don't like.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
That two of them involve hideous versions of childbirth isn’t accidental.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025
Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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