hideous

Example Sentences

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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

The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Overnight my finger had become more hideous than Antony Ralston's backpass against Switzerland at last year's Euros.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

That two of them involve hideous versions of childbirth isn’t accidental.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025

Setting it firmly on her head, she deliberately pounded the piano keys, producing a hideous, tuneless sound.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn