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
Synonyms
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
Recent Examples on the Web
So my sheets looked hideous, and my toenails were just disgusting the whole six months.
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
This Sunday, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to compare the pro-Palestinian protests to Kristallnacht—the hideous night in 1938 when antisemitic mobs set upon Jews across the German Reich.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
Later came plans for a hideous electric version called the T27, with 34 horsepower and a range of 100 miles.
—Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 5 May 2024
McElhenney responded by emblazoning a hideous version of Reynolds’s face onto a blimp and later, gifting him the Ryan Rodney Reynolds Memorial Park, a real park in the heart of Wrexham, Wales.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2024
Like those who brought picnic lunches to watch the bloody battles of the Civil War, Angelenos, and Americans, could not get enough of the O.J. Simpson trial, which quickly became about everything but the hideous double murder with which he was charged.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
At hideous cost to themselves—measured in tens of thousands of killed, wounded, or missing men a month—Russian armies are advancing slowly.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Countless civilians are caught in the crossfire: Artillery bombardments and airstrikes pounded urban areas, while warring militias pursued tribal vendettas and carried out hideous ethnic massacres.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
On Monday, Turkey woke up to a set of political realities dramatically different from those less than a year ago, when Erdogan secured reelection despite a tanking economy and the hideous impact of an earthquake that devastated the country’s south.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
This Sunday, on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to compare the pro-Palestinian protests to Kristallnacht—the hideous night in 1938 when antisemitic mobs set upon Jews across the German Reich.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
Later came plans for a hideous electric version called the T27, with 34 horsepower and a range of 100 miles.
—Alistair Charlton, WIRED, 5 May 2024
McElhenney responded by emblazoning a hideous version of Reynolds’s face onto a blimp and later, gifting him the Ryan Rodney Reynolds Memorial Park, a real park in the heart of Wrexham, Wales.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2024
Like those who brought picnic lunches to watch the bloody battles of the Civil War, Angelenos, and Americans, could not get enough of the O.J. Simpson trial, which quickly became about everything but the hideous double murder with which he was charged.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
At hideous cost to themselves—measured in tens of thousands of killed, wounded, or missing men a month—Russian armies are advancing slowly.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
Countless civilians are caught in the crossfire: Artillery bombardments and airstrikes pounded urban areas, while warring militias pursued tribal vendettas and carried out hideous ethnic massacres.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
On Monday, Turkey woke up to a set of political realities dramatically different from those less than a year ago, when Erdogan secured reelection despite a tanking economy and the hideous impact of an earthquake that devastated the country’s south.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hideous. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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