1
: offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly
hideous furniture
The dress looked hideous on her.
2
: morally offensive : shocking
a hideous crime
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Examples of hideous in a Sentence
The room was filled with hideous furniture.
the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Over 103 minutes, the Boston starters have been outscored by 29 points with a hideous offensive rating of 105.8 and net rating of minus-11.3.
—Jay King, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.
—Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Over 103 minutes, the Boston starters have been outscored by 29 points with a hideous offensive rating of 105.8 and net rating of minus-11.3.
—Jay King, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.
—Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hideous. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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