HIDEOUS


Meaning of HIDEOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

most

There they had little hope of meeting, wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen.

To me it is a most hideous brute.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hideous crime

a man with a hideous twisted lip

Emma was wearing an absolutely hideous purple and orange dress.

In fairy stories the Prince is always very handsome, and the witch hideous .

One of our wedding presents was a hideous clock.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Each of the damned souls was guarded by a group of hideous demons.

Everyone knows that hideous accidents happen, however precise modern weapons are supposed to be.

Exactly how hideous had it been?

He became vast and covered me, covered my face, his hideous throat working.

One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.

Roosevelt saw first-hand the hideous results of free enterprise untouched by government regulation.

Seconds later, the night was made hideous by the shrieks of alarm from the man-apes in the cave above.

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