How to Use hideous in a Sentence

hideous

adjective

• The room was filled with hideous furniture.
• 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
• And in the past decade, there’s been a telling trend: Our Franken-creatures aren’t hideous.
  — Joey Eschrich, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• Back at Eleanor’s hideous clown ranch, the gang weighs their options.
  — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Just turned on the Potato Bowl and … ooomph, those uniforms are both hideous.
  — Brian Stultz, ajc, 22 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Even the dowdy styles worn by their unhip classmates are fun to look at, in their own hideous way.
  — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
• 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
• In this light, death by fire seems just too hideous to use more than sparingly in film.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 21 May 2021
• 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
• The sixth loss came Sunday at Bridgestone Arena, a hideous 75-70 loss to No.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Of course Jeffress and Hagee were only a small part of the hideous spectacle in Jerusalem.
  — Frank Rich, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• Forces that the prince cannot control turn him into a hideous creature.
  — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
• The film's title comes from the fact that Jane had been a bridesmaid in 27 weddings and had 27 hideous dresses to prove it.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• The picture is hideous, and the museum is always broke.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
• So my sheets looked hideous, and my toenails were just disgusting the whole six months.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
• And the rest of it overlaps with the fact that, somehow, hideous sandals in general are in vogue.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018
• There are people coming back that lived in the dirt without shoes for three years, people that were locked up in hideous conditions for 20 years.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2024
• For those who haven’t recognized the callous opportunism inherent to Donald Trump and his cronies, perhaps The Penguin’s putrid embodiment of those traits will nudge them closer to seeing one hideous monster in the other.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024