1
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
The love scenes between the two men are intense and unprettified, leaving a lasting emotional imprint on a hideous green deep-pile carpet.
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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
After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
True to fairy-tale tropes, Evie’s landlord, Edita, has an exterior that conveys her hideous character, with long fingernails and steam erupting from her ears.
—Lora Kelley, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2025
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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
After a couple of insulting caricatures, increasingly bizarre depictions of the Vice President started to spread through the internet, the trend becoming a competition to see who could create the most hideous, weird or original Vance.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
True to fairy-tale tropes, Evie’s landlord, Edita, has an exterior that conveys her hideous character, with long fingernails and steam erupting from her ears.
—Lora Kelley, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hideous
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Lindell handles very ugly, difficult matchups and usually comes out on top, regardless of who he’s partnered with.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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If the scoreline made for ugly reading, the performance wasn’t much better.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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Gein committed many gruesome crimes, but cannibalism was not one of them.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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But one photo, far less gruesome, has been gnawing at me for weeks.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Later, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs drew from Gein’s grotesque legacy.—
Aya Al-Hakim,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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And having a 'hate speech' crackdown in the name of Charlie Kirk — a man who absolutely rejected 'hate speech' laws — is especially grotesque.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Evshine Memory Foam Slippers Listen, airplane floors are disgusting.—
Carin Ryan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.—
Kevin Coulson,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Those bots have attracted lawsuits in horrific instances where users lost their grip on reality or took their own lives after interacting with them.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Many of the base’s survivors have similarly described the singularly horrific nature of those 45 square miles in eastern Cuba.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Once the selloff happened, the Twins were destined to be awful for the final two months, all but sealing Baldelli’s fate.—
Aaron Gleeman,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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That’s the awful low; but Dunne’s story is ultimately one of redemption.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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Miami could choose to move on from the star receiver due to the horrible season-ending injury.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Many of the game’s best teams spent the regular season alternating between brilliant and horrible.—
Levi Weaver,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hideous. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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