hideousness

Example Sentences

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Those monsters represent the hideousness of the human soul.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2023

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

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2022

They just kept taking swipe after swipe at the glum-looking, contorted hideousness of his face.

From New York Times • May 3, 2022

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

Its style was lively and direct; he presented the fever in all its hideousness and did not spare any details.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy