hideousness

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She added they would "show how music and creativity can bring unity in times of just hideousness".

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2022

Once established, these fake sites, with plausible-sounding names like the Arizona Monitor and the Kalamazoo Times, become official-looking platforms for all varieties of hideousness.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2020

We’re done for today with what Edgar Allan Poe called “the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed”.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019

Krasinski has clearly absorbed a lesson in conceptual economy from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," and like a "Jaws"-era Steven Spielberg, he takes his time revealing the monsters in all their sharp-fanged, big-eared hideousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2018

Here the real business was up close and on top of you: gas stations, Wal-Marts, Kmarts, Dunkin Donuts, Blockbuster Videos, a ceaseless unfolding pageant of commercial hideousness.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson