How to Use hideous in a Sentence

hideous

adjective

• The room was filled with hideous furniture.
• Hart was short, with a hideous combover.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
• And the other part is this list of the most hideous men in my life.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2019
• Texas still had some fight left, even after all those hideous hacks at the plate.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2021
• But once, my roommate had hung this hideous rack of dusty old spices above the stove.
  — Alyse Whitney, Saveur, 25 Mar. 2026
• The noise is hideous, but the pollution is much worse.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
• Suddenly the whole thing seemed like a hideous dream.
  — Elwyn "bud" Myers, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
• Not all of whom are entirely hideous.
  — Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• Not all of whom are entirely hideous.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• Back at Eleanor’s hideous clown ranch, the gang weighs their options.
  — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• This used to be a death knell—the shoes that fit the bill were hideous until a few years ago.
  — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 31 May 2026
• 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 bows are certainly in the wrong order and the length is hideous.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
• Forces that the prince cannot control turn him into a hideous creature.
  — Nico Lang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Mar. 2017
• In a word, misery, in all its most hideous shapes, spread over the whole face of the country.
  — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2020
• Even the dowdy styles worn by their unhip classmates are fun to look at, in their own hideous way.
  — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
• Any idea on when this hideous barcode-design strip will be released?
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 12 May 2026
• What is the significance of a hideous mask made from the hide of a killer whale?
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• The hideous devil is gabbling nonsense and fondling a doll-like girl.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• So my sheets looked hideous, and my toenails were just disgusting the whole six months.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
• This look is topped with a swirling pompadour, one of the production’s many hideous wigs.
  — Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
• Take your fake smile at the latest hideous gift from Aunt Mabel.
  — Elisabeth Blagrove, Quartz, 25 Dec. 2019
• The brochure of hideous, brand-new buildings, the palm trees that screamed useless, lifelong debt.
  — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• All our buildings are these hideous rectangles.
  — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Either way, that’s a lot of sad road trips, and a lot of time for that same hideous streak to marinate.
  — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 15 Jan. 2018
• Such jars of moldy fruit were probably fairly hideous to consume.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
• The equally hideous harvest gold was the trend the following year.
  — Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• Just turned on the Potato Bowl and … ooomph, those uniforms are both hideous.
  — Brian Stultz, ajc, 22 Dec. 2017
• This week, rose lovers, new Bachelorette star Tayshia rid the world of a hideous scourge.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• And the rest of it overlaps with the fact that, somehow, hideous sandals in general are in vogue.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 Nov. 2018