hideous
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abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, gross, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shocking, sickening, ugly
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The equally hideous harvest gold was the trend the following year. — Neal J. Leitereg And Lauren Beale, latimes.com, "Hot Property Newsletter: Getting their acts together," 8 June 2019 Once titled, these two photographs call up a hideous history, remind us of the land’s indifference, and roil the mind. — Vicki Goldberg, New York Times, "Sally Mann’s Haunted South," 29 Mar. 2018 His nuclear odyssey yields some hideous examples of the industry’s secrecy, particularly a visit to the Russian village of Metlino, on the Techa river in the Urals. — The Economist, "Secrets and lies of the nuclear age," 7 June 2018 In many cases, the most hideous photos contained captions with innocuous hashtags in Arabic, including #Dads, #Girls, and #Cooking. — Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, "Gruesome Jihadi Content Still Flourishes on Facebook and Google+," 17 May 2018 Ahead of its two-year anniversary, the home-portable hybrid system has now seen a bunch of older games come back to life as perfect Switch fodder... but many of them are now lost in the Nintendo eShop's hideous interface. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Diablo III leads our list of older games born anew on Nintendo Switch," 2 Nov. 2018 And the rest of it overlaps with the fact that, somehow, hideous sandals in general are in vogue. — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, "Crocs is now targeting teens. Somehow, it’s working.," 1 Nov. 2018 On In front of the gorgeous Frederiksberg Gardens, where couples rent boats in the summer and take brisk walks in winter, sits a beloved ice skating rink—without a single corporate sponsor or hideous DJ to be seen. — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, "What To Do In Copenhagen In December 2018," 6 Dec. 2018 Each episode ends up as an extended joke about how the superhero genre works, with every hideous, terrifying protagonist defeated in a quick overdetermined anticlimax. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "The best superhero stories admit that superheroes are ridiculous," 11 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hideous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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