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hideous

When someone is hideous, it means the person is very ugly. Medusa was a hideous monster.

hideous

(= horrific, outrageous) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror subjected to outrageous cruelty a hideous pattern of injustice horrific conditions in the mining industry (= repulsive) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying a hideous scar a repulsive mask

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Simple sentences

A hideous monster used to live there.
Some things get more hideous, when you clean them.
Tom had a hideous hangover.
Tom is hideous.
Tom rolled up his sleeve, exposing a hideous scar.
Don't say these hideous words again!
A language can sound beautiful when spoken by one person, but hideous when spoken by another.
The police haven't yet caught the person who committed this hideous crime.
You're hideous.
This place is hideous.
It looks hideous.
What a hideous-looking couch.

Movie subtitles

Why is Venus such a harsh, hideous environment, some 600 degrees Celsius or so?
Mrs. Palmer was a hideous old shrew.
The wick of his lighter under the bridle of the horse, shows the premeditation of his hideous outrage.
Christopher Columbus is said to have seen three hideous sirens. playing in the water near Santo Domingo.
Saw her walking in the village with those hideous spangles.. thatchalkypaintedface.. andthoseeyeslikeacobra 'seyes.
Hideous animal, get hence!
Here among the innocent souvenirs of his childhood. the hideous portrait would be forever hidden away.
He would examine with minute care the hideous lines. that scarred the wrinkling forehead. or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth. wondering which were more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
When I hear all these hideous things that people whisper about you. I don't know what to say.
Besides being hideous, I'm not quick-witted.
That face is hideous.
It's been a perfectly hideous party.
What a hideous tree.
And what a hideous painting.
He's hideous.
Hideous footsteps creaking along the misty corridors of time, and in those corridors I see figures.
Oh, what a hideous monster it was, this.
Hideous!
And in love, while she's old and hideous and dried up and has never known anything about love.
Saw her walking in the village with those hideous spangles.. thatchalkypaintedface.
Listen, Julia, there's been a hideous mistake.
Besides being hideous, i'm not quick-witted.
Belle, i saw him. That face is hideous.
Oh, it's too hideous.
Hideous.
Oh, heaven, how can you play such a hideous trick on me?
Standing by Mama's poor little grave in that hideous suburban cemetery, I made an oath that I would revenge the wrongs her family had done her.
And four hours on the hideous rack.
Perhaps you're hideous and ill-dispositioned and tedious really, and I never knew.
It's hideous suspecting him.
It's hideous! I'm going.
Making such a thing! It's hideous!
For almost twenty years, haven't you torn from the arms of the guillotine the most hideous of criminals?
However hideous your threshold, do you know what my duty is?
Well, then what are you doing in that hideous hat?
That was a pleasant evening. - It was a hideous evening.
You've committed a hideous crime, so she's ashamed to see you.
Now you're hideous.
It's hideous.

News and current affairs

This silence gives a hideous signal.
With violent crimes on a shocking upsurge, with the hideous crimes of child rape and abuse on the increase, there are nowadays frequent calls - backed by wide public support - to restore capital punishment.
In this hideous century of ours, only beggars and faithful people pass through in the end.
A thuggish guttersnipe more akin to Aleksander Lukashenka, the dictator of Belarus, than to the great dictators, Lepper nonetheless represents a hideous post-modern form of irrational politics.
It is also dangerous and destructive, and was in large part responsible for Europe's hideous politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Indeed, on virtually every politically volatile issue--from nuclear testing to communal conflict - Congress sowed the seeds and Vajpayee's nationalist BJP party reaps the hideous harvest.
To shoot journalists in cold blood for printing a cartoon is a hideous crime.
Of course, the hideous and crazed words of the leader of Boko Haram, the group that kidnapped the girls, are representative only of the most extreme fringe of this ideology.
The event is so hideous that it seems like a bad joke, or an evil KGB plot, a mad conspiracy out of James Bond - or some combination of all three.

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