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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Big Think, 24 June 2024
Gottlieb’s most notorious collection was his mid-century plastic handbags—hideous and stunning specimens, entirely impractical.
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
Gottlieb’s most notorious collection was his mid-century plastic handbags—hideous and stunning specimens, entirely impractical.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
The second costume is legitimately hideous, and the shoes are still there.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 June 2024
Traffic is going to be hideous but try to take the drive where the totality is.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hideous. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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