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
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
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The hideous brutalist Embarcadero fountain had frozen over; couples skated across it like holiday shoppers.
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Per Pro Football Reference, his bad throw percentage improved from a hideous 23.8 and 25.2% his first two seasons to 15.7 in 2023.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
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Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Per Pro Football Reference, his bad throw percentage improved from a hideous 23.8 and 25.2% his first two seasons to 15.7 in 2023.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for hideous
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hideous. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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