How to Use hideous in a Sentence

hideous

adjective

• The room was filled with hideous furniture.
• Back at Eleanor’s hideous clown ranch, the gang weighs their options.
  — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• Either way, that’s a lot of sad road trips, and a lot of time for that same hideous streak to marinate.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 15 Jan. 2018
• Just turned on the Potato Bowl and … ooomph, those uniforms are both hideous.
  — Brian Stultz, ajc, 22 Dec. 2017
• The new release is a brush kit that basically makes all other brush kits look hideous.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 29 Oct. 2017
• The rear is like a much less hideous version of the Model X, and the front has a sporty, even menacing aspect to it.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
• Fitbit’s app remains easy to comprehend, and the Alta itself is slim, light, and, in our opinion, not hideous looking.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2017
• Just look at President Trump’s hideous buildings in Manhattan.
  — Steve & Mia, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• This is not to ignore the obvious truth that the religion most prone to this hideous tendency at this point in global history is Islam.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• The Astros jumped on him early, and often, pounding out six hits -- including four extra-base hits -- and four runs in the most hideous performance of his major-league career.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• Within a few weeks, the righteous exposure of hideous abuse of power had morphed into a more generalized revolution against the patriarchy.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Jan. 2018
• Wandering enemies such as raiders and hideous bloatflies will follow you around, converging on your position with a somewhat mindless AI.
  — Charles Theel, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2018
• Back then, Merkel opted to welcome hundreds of thousands of people entering Europe, many of whom were fleeing the hideous Syrian war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
• In a truly hideous sequence, Betty joins her family on Christmas morning, with Santa crouching ominously by the tree.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Dec. 2017
• Some of them were hideous and some of them were all right.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• And the other part is this list of the most hideous men in my life.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2019
• Silly, low-class and, worst of all, hideous to look at.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• In a word, misery, in all its most hideous shapes, spread over the whole face of the country.
  — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2020
• What is the significance of a hideous mask made from the hide of a killer whale?
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• Texas still had some fight left, even after all those hideous hacks at the plate.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2021
• London’s hideous Walkie Talkie tries to atone for its sins with the Sky Garden.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 14 June 2018
• The Day of Infamy is a time to shed light on a hideous irony of war as well as to remember.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• The brochure of hideous, brand-new buildings, the palm trees that screamed useless, lifelong debt.
  — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• Take your fake smile at the latest hideous gift from Aunt Mabel.
  — Elisabeth Blagrove, Quartz, 25 Dec. 2019
• Not only that, but this project is a huge, hideous eyesore.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2019
• The equally hideous harvest gold was the trend the following year.
  — Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• The hideous devil is gabbling nonsense and fondling a doll-like girl.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Others were scarred and blinded in the most hideous manner.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Gilmore’s most beloved bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold-and-Kerouac arrives in Stars Hollow with a bang in this season-two episode, pissing off everyone and wearing a puffer vest that, while hideous, can’t disguise his good looks.
  — Rachel Simon, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2024
• One thing that isn’t fabulous are those hideous Oz-green spiky stilettos, which Anna puts on after the deus ex machina that is Adeline’s reappearance from beyond the grave in the last ten minutes of the season.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024