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
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
At a steakhouse afterward, he seemed out of sorts, ordering liver and onions and commenting on the hideousness of the restaurant’s red velvet wallpaper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2015
I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
