How to Use hideous in a Sentence

hideous

adjective
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  • The room was filled with hideous furniture.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even some of the mediocrities, and there are many in 2020, can be downright hideous.
    — Barry Wilner, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This was a team struggling to stay at .500, with hideous losses on its resume.
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
  • On the mound, the O’s were particularly hideous in 2020.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • In any case, exceptions or not, the prospect of such a federal law is hideous.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 May 2022
  • The White Sox were considered a playoff club by many, and were off to a hideous 8-21 start through Monday’s games.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In Sheol, the kids must fight off hideous ancient creatures while trying to get back to Earth.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021
  • So say goodbye to those hideous old overhead lights that come standard in many homes.
    — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Anything to avoid another glance at the box score and its hideous numbers.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Perhaps a hideous wild boar or a wee bird would’ve been easier?
    — Rachel Levin, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The hideous prosthetic-heavy look took four hours in the makeup chair before going on the set each day.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
  • There are few things that can truly rid you of hideous grout stains, dirty floors, and sticky countertops like a drill brush.
    — Sanah Faroke, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • That’s no longer the case in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel and the hideous war in Gaza that has followed.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Put on your most hideous holiday sweater for a bar hop through the Warehouse District.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • And then Clyde Drexler walked out on stage in some of the most hideous threads in professional sports history.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 22 Aug. 2022
  • This isn’t a comment on the good or bad of deficits, and it’s certainly not a call for more of the hideous tax that is government spending.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The Rockets host the Pistons while riding a hideous 18-game losing streak that started about six weeks ago.
    — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
  • People whose clocks run fast or slow are trapped in a hideous state of perpetual jet lag.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Burbot — known as the poor man’s lobster for its flaky, mild flavor — taste divine but look hideous.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2021

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