hideous

adjective

hid·eous ˈhi-dē-əs

Synonyms of hideous next

: offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly

hideous furniture

The dress looked hideous on her.

: morally offensive : shocking

a hideous crime

hideosity

ˌhi-dē-ˈä-sə-tē

noun

hideously adverb

hideousness noun

Example Sentences

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 The twisted nightmares of bioengineering, with hideous orifices and unnatural urges, are bad; normal is good. —

Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 That rather hideous Marilyn sculpture Art critic Christopher Knight flagged for me Friday that a three-judge panel of California’s 4th District Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit over the 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe statue in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum. —

Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023 Finally, the perfect excuse to bust out the sherry while reclining in a hideous chair. —

Vulture, 15 Jan. 2023 At the moment, as the Miami Heat regroup from consecutive hideous losses, hope wears No. 4. —

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022 Every unsettling creature, villager that acts strangely, and hideous creature comes together to make an engaging adventure. —

Brittany Vincent, BGR, 26 Feb. 2022 Harmless—if hideous—relics. —

Hazlitt, 28 June 2022 Is anyone working on a Chrome extension to make Google Docs look less hideous? —

Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023 His murders were really shocking and hideous. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022 See More

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