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as in ugly
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing
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as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a hideous crime that could not be fully described in the newspapers
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as in grotesque
unpleasant to look at
wearing a hideous Halloween mask that made the kids all jump with fright
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Recent Examples of hideous
Hart was short, with a hideous combover.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
That hideous incentive triggered My Lai and other similarly heinous attacks.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
The love scenes between the two men are intense and unprettified, leaving a lasting emotional imprint on a hideous green deep-pile carpet.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
The gig was a nationwide endorsement tour in a high visibility campaign effort to help generate sales for the universally unpopular and aesthetically hideous Aztec.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
That hideous incentive triggered My Lai and other similarly heinous attacks.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
The love scenes between the two men are intense and unprettified, leaving a lasting emotional imprint on a hideous green deep-pile carpet.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
The gig was a nationwide endorsement tour in a high visibility campaign effort to help generate sales for the universally unpopular and aesthetically hideous Aztec.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hideous
Adjective
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The Broncos escaped, but this was ugly.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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On the other side, there was just as much commotion, but these conversations were almost hysterical — and far uglier.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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Since then, there’s been little doubt about who police believe is responsible for the 12-year-old schoolgirl’s gruesome death.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Cultures around the world have ancient traditions of narrating events, sometimes gruesome, through song.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Ninety minutes of hilariously grotesque mayhem.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
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Alex casually informing a family friend that their son will take the fall for Paul’s sin is clearly grotesque behavior.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The tragedy in question is no secret — Chris and Jenny are killed together in a horrific car accident, which inspires all sorts of awful questions — and the fallout is mostly predictable.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
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How the stakeholders juggled those diametrically opposed ideas—liberty and self-governance but also slavery and their horrific treatment of the Native American population—is the part of the human experience that Burns is most interested in exploring.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.—
Eric Tegler,
Popular Mechanics,
1 Oct. 2019
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His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
1 Feb. 2018
Adjective
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The tragedy in question is no secret — Chris and Jenny are killed together in a horrific car accident, which inspires all sorts of awful questions — and the fallout is mostly predictable.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
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But talk about some awful timing, my word.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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Inherently, a writer doing historical research is always victim to this horrible irony.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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There are some horrible things said on stage by the mystery writer that Tony Carlin plays.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hideous. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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