How To Use Hideous In A Sentence

I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Finally he could conclude that'life without love is hideous'. Times, Sunday Times

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Being caught in the middle of someone else's family argument is hideous and embarrassing.
It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination. Actually, Today Is Pretty Typical, So Far
It is a still a point of hot debate with skiers as to whether Les Arcs is a work of architectural genius, or simply a hideous alpine eyesore.
A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous. The Golden Calf
I spent the first 14 years of my life sure that my looks were hideous. The Sun
His face was hideously contorted by rage.
The whole thing has been a hideous blunder, and the idea of encumbering a force of four thousand men with something like thirty thousand camp followers, and with a train of no less than nineteen thousand bullocks, to say nothing of other draught animals, is the most preposterous thing I ever heard of. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War
Yet to that hideous place not fo confined By rigor unconniving, but that oft Leaving my dolorous prifon I enjoy Ltrge liberty to round this globe of earth, 365 The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. Les Miserables
This hideously overworked cliché alone is enough is enough to bar you from membership of the young-old club.
Ghostly singing and piano riffs are heard from time to time; scenes end with Hedda downstage center staring at the audience, sometimes followed by her hideous cackle.
This outfit is one of her more hideous concoctions in the way of outfits: white wedge sandals, a mini skirt made from Dalmatian-patterned suede, and a black and white checked t-shirt with a plunging neckline.
Thanks to fire regulations, disguising new self-closing ones to look old was hideously expensive.
It turned its hideous head that looked like a rounded cone, with the snout being the pointy end and the round side being in back.
Re peace overtures, Krushchev and Eisenhower were about to have a big summit that might have staved off the hideously expensive Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
I'm afraid it would probably be something hideously worthy, that would make you sick. The Sun
Voters are reacting to hideous crimes committed by thugs who should be behind bars. The Sun
Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity! Darkness and Dawn
Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
I find if you fuck a man as soon as he walks in through the door, then you avoid this kind of hideously awkward exchange. The Date The Earth Stood Still
Pat McGowan, the book's hideous central character, is unencumbered by any moral code, even the criminal.
Another bugbear of childbearing is the pregnancy bra - a hideous garment.
It becomes a race against time to stop the man committing a hideous crime. The Sun
In one instance outraged neighbours fought back against plans approved by their council for a hideous burger bar on the town 's seafront. Times, Sunday Times
Who picked that hideously ugly puke green cover?
It is hideous to my imagination, especially what is called phrenological mesmerism. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
What they see in the mirror is a hideously distorted vision of themselves which disgusts and horrifies them, often to the point when venturing out into the world is a painful and traumatic experience.
Who is he whose hair is of the carroty hue? whose eyes, across a snubby bunch of a nose, are perpetually scowling at each other; who has a hump-back and a hideous mouth, surrounded with bristles, and crammed full of jutting yellow odious teeth. A Legend of the Rhine
The dancers, arrayed in awe-inspiring costumes and hideous masks, enact weird rituals before the village shrine.
Further, even if people recognize the symbol as freedom or individuality, the way it was executed is absolutely hideous. Interior Design Patterns from Hand
There was a sudden silence of its pattering feet, a hiss and a hideous yowl. AN OLDER WOMAN
But there is no man in the world so hardy, Christian man ne other, but that he would be adread to behold it, and that it would seem him to die for dread, so is it hideous for to behold. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
But actually what you find in reality is sometimes quite hideous: I was in Nepal hang-gliding and strapped to someone operating it. KiÅ¡a Lala: Mythographers: Recalling The Future, Foretelling The Past
Just fancy, I'd begin with a clear leap over that chief's head -- the one there wi 'the feathers an' the long nose that's makin 'such hideous faces -- then away up the glen, over the stones, down the hollows, shoutin' like mad, an 'clearin' the brooks and precipices with a band o 'yellin' Redskins at my tail! Twice Bought
I need something particularly eldritch, hideous and nameless here.
As in so many American plays, the past haunts the present and contains a hideous secret that is known but never acknowledged.
When I was being beaten in the ring, terribly beaten, hideously beaten, it would have been easy for me to quit.
It was hideously overpriced in a stagnant housing market.
What he does provide are gross out jokes, amateurish animation techniques, and hideous images of the human body and deformed flesh.
Thomas Jefferson publicly called Adams a "hideous hermaphroditical character. Poll: Bitterness Of Pennsylvania Primary Could Spell Trouble For Dems In November
He was ranting at the Porto manager, refusing to shake hands and shouting with that hideous gobby bit of chewing gum bobbling all over my nice widescreen.
Trade in her hideous orange jumpsuit for her usual couture!
At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting glances like chained wolves. Les Miserables
'A brawler, 'or, as Delitzsch renders it,' boisterous '-- look into a liquor-store if you want to verify that, or listen to a drunken party coming back from an excursion and making night hideous with their bellowings, or go to any police court on a Monday morning. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
The majority of rolling stock was hideously dated and on the verge of collapse.
We know of nothing so agonizing upon Earth -- we can dream of nothing half so hideous in the realms of the nethermost hell," he wrote in the short story "The Premature Burial. A Man Called Freud
Was it the Greek verse, containing one senarius with a long syllable before the caesura in the fifth foot, as Herbert pointed out to his brother on the very evening when that hideous oversight -- say rather crime -- had been openly perpetrated in plain black and white on a virgin sheet of innocent paper? Philistia
Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
If you decide that your girlfriend was right and you are rather hideous then don't despair.
That I looked utterly hideous in all of these outfits entirely missed the point. Times, Sunday Times
This man, of Kalmuck extraction, and hideous, even savage appearance, but the kindest-hearted creature and by no means a fool, was passionately devoted to Pasinkov, and had been his servant for ten years. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
Before he could protest, Raylaa had already disappeared into the porch, where the hideous sidecar and the motorcycle with the peeling red paint stood, worn down and decrepit.
I find the trilogy to be hideously dated and a bit sexist.
It is a hideously ugly place, looming out of a vast plain next to majestic mountains. Times, Sunday Times
He lied us into two hideously unfair tax cuts; he lied us into an unnecessary war with disastrous consequences; he lied us into the Patriot Act, eviscerating our freedoms.
'Hideous monster! let me go; My papa is a Syndic — he is M. Frankenstein — he will punish you. Chapter 16
Return might be the hideous height of his prevailing good intentions.
One keeps banging his head against the seat, the other keeps making repetitive noises and a few more are laughing at something hideously unfunny.
What this month is all about is a bit of fun to raise some money for a worthy charity while looking hideous for an entire month.
The face underneath was an assortment of species, all combined together to make up the hideously ugly face.
And, if small is beautiful, then the massive, dangerous, centralizing technocracy that is the nuclear industry is hideous.
It came from the woods to the west, and simultaneously an object arched out of the trees, struck the ground and rolled bouncingly towards the rocks - a severed human head, the hideously painted face frozen in a snarl of death. The Conan Chronicles
Métraux, too, blamed the "hideous atrocities" of foreign slavers for the near-extermination of Rapa Nui's people. Don't Blame the Natives
An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode.
I was afraid that Mark would wolf-whistle his appreciation or do the hideous thing with his pocket where he pretended to have become erect. MUSIC FOR BOYS
I still shudder at the thought of that hideously preppy name.
Like dark circles and overhead lighting and just like really bad, like hideous - hideosity (ph), I ` d call it. CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2009
I smacked my forehead and reached for the wall behind me; the hideous sight had suddenly weakened my constitution.
Next ball, as if vindictively, he reverted to a hideous, shameless cross-batted slog near midwicket for six.
Things were about to get hideously out of control.
It has a deeply-keeled carapax, beautifully bossed, and a hideous triangular head, having curious, lobed, fleshy appendages, and nostrils prolonged into a tube. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
They are hideous examples of concrete brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.
Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair.
`If you can't control that hideous noise I shall have a megrim. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
It is vital that those who commit these hideous crimes are punished to the full limit of the law. Times, Sunday Times
The hideous, grating noise lasted for only a few seconds, and then the blessed silence of the forest poured back in.
The old village of Freshwater is picturesque, but the new lodging-house portion, only lately sprung up because it has become a fashion with doctors to prescribe Freshwater as a holiday and sanitary place, is hideous in its newness of fiery red brick and freshly uptorn earth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
Whereas his earlier paintings portrayed women as hideous, gargoyle-like creatures, there was a distinct progression and a definite softening in his outlook.
His hideous ears must represent the eavesdroping spies of the Inquisition who intimidated and stifled the people. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Roosevelt saw first-hand the hideous results of free enterprise untouched by government regulation.
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In Russian there is a much kinder word, you simply say ‘not beautiful’, ‘unbeautiful’ and that leaves you with the whole gamut of unbeautiful, from hideous to rather plain.
The app store is hideously expensive in parts. The Sun
This means that sports fans better think twice before calling their bookies when they hear: "Patriot head coach Bill Belichick has thrown acid into the face of star quarterback Tom Brady, apparently out of jealousy that Brady was handsome and loved, while he himself was a hideous monster. NPR Topics: News
On the way home I saw a car skidding down the road, tyres screeching against the concrete, hideously loud.
I think the colour scheme they've chosen is hideous.
Any alteration is a hideously expensive exercise. Times, Sunday Times
These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent.
The façade is a hideous green, possibly painted two decades ago and impossibly free of graffiti.
It simply discloses a new and hideous fact about the world order.
You will end up wearing jeans, a hideous fleece and skanky trainers every day.
Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
a hideous pattern of injustice
The characters are either utterly hideous or desperately beautiful.
It was the most hideous, black stripy wallpaper but I don't want to take it down because it's his.
You may have had a similar experience—that sense of irreality and of focusing on the unimportant detail in the face of something hideous. In the Fullness of Time
And they made things worse with a hideous tactical error. The Sun
Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
However, the film is going to change those faces, and so I'm not sure if I want to see these hideously deformed new visages.
Staggering through the alien streets, he lost all consciousness of himself in a vortex, a whirling maelstrom, of hideous and terrifying hallucinatory images and imaginings.
Unfortunately, the particular magazine in question also has a long history of being hideously accurate on many occasions. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
I have been to visit a few times but I’m brain damaged from the number of hideous chores that we got through this weekend and couldn’t think of anything to say apart from ‘Its very pink here.’ Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge
The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.
We humans are inclined to sympathize with attractive people, which is why satirists often paint their targets in hideous garb.
It is vital that those who commit these hideous crimes are punished to the full limit of the law. Times, Sunday Times
What hideous, heartless monsters these voters are!
The Spaniards, in general, dislike a mixture of vanilla with the cacao, as irritating the nervous system; the fruit, therefore, of that orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the moist and feverish coast between Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Seconds later, the night was made hideous by the shrieks of alarm from the man-apes in the cave above.
A full investigation will give the police the information they need to target the criminals and criminal networks involved in this hideous crime. Times, Sunday Times
There is always something you can get hideously wrong. Times, Sunday Times
I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. Chapter 13
A factually accurate restatement of my position, but a kind of litotes, like saying Lucy Liu is not very hideous at all. The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?
The states are plotzing right and left, caught in hideous binds - whether it is better to release dangerous prisoners or cut back the schools, cut back health care for kids or nursing homes for old folks.
Every captured Jihadist knows the form by now; Allege the most hideous crimes of torture and humiliation against US armed forces and a BBC reporter wanting to believe such pigswill will appear, microphone in hand, prepared to provide an echo chamber for the enemy. LEADING THE JIHAD
I'm glad it helped that blogger and made her a bazillion dollars (though seriously when I go look at the blog now its navigation is impossible and graphics hideous -- come on, you have to consider future readers) but I could never do it, because it seems empty exercise to me, and not creative or fun. Peter Straub's A Dark Matter
What does Mary always say, horrible creature, as she spears the hideous lumps of gristle on her fork?
Suddenly, a herd of hideous, strange animals stampeded by, as the strange man next to Jack launched arrows into the group.
Whiplash's head rolled away from her lifeless body, mouth contorted in a hideous grin.
Finally he could conclude that'life without love is hideous'. Times, Sunday Times
The fruit of this orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the humid coast between Porto Cabello and Ocumare, especially at The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
She described a hideous humpbacked creature with stumpy horns, and bristles down the back of a long neck.
One of the most vivid memories of those days is the year that the government introduced the hideous disease myxomatosis to control a plague of rabbits on the Sussex Downs. ɘloЯ
The initiation tests were too hideous for most. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.
A perpetual fire of fulminating balls would bang from under the feet of the faithful; odors of impure assafoetida would mingle with the fumes of the incense; and wicked drinking choruses would rise up along with the holy canticles, in hideous dissonance, reminding one of the old orgies under the reign of the The Paris Sketch Book
Its replacement is yet another brick, glass and steel monstrosity, alongside so many new buildings of similar unmemorable and offensive design, in particular the hideous Leisure Exchange.
Another, suddenly struck by a hideous strabism, clucked, then becoming tongue-tied stood with her mouth open, the tongue turned back, the tip cleaving to the palate. Là-bas
The Soltenites 'forefathers had still believed in Arkon's pantheon of gods many millennia before but now the Soltenites were immersed in demonism and paid homage to hideous spirit ogres, considering them to be deities worthy of worship-and all such demonic gods were without exception of the masculine gender. Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York
And can I admit something hideous? Times, Sunday Times
Most hideously misguided of all is the UPVC front door - complemented beautifully by a moulded plastic doorframe.
her face was hideously disfigured after the accident
The women don't only look hideous, they look miserable. Times, Sunday Times
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry
Buy only hideous fabric in polyester or bad blends. Archive 2008-02-01
And just £4 will buy Jessica Biel a packet of discount shop-bought hair colourant that will turn her hideously ginger for three months. Jessica Biel Is Wonder Woman, To Some Extent
To the extent that those voices could on a given evening write themselves through Kafka, Kafka could experience even the ghastliest of them, even the sirens with their hideous claws and sterile wombs, even Gregor Samsa, as beauty itself: "[S] ie konnten nicht dafür, dass die Klage so schön klang" [ "They couldn't help it that their lament sounded so beautiful"] (Parables 92). Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
In this 2009 horror movie -- which I advise you not to watch -- an insanely evil doctor abducts three people (a man and two women) in order to conduct a hideous experiment: he transforms them into the title creature by removing their kneecaps and grafting them together, mouth to anus. Ariel Gonzalez: President Marco Rubio
It was a hideous thing—black and flabby and slimy-looking, with a flaccid belly, a batlike face, and long, spindly limbs. Songs of Love & Death
Here, therefore, is a symmetrical and complete, regular, but dimerous orchideous flower, the first verticil of stamens not antheriferous, the second antheriferous, the carpels alternate with these; and here we have clear (and perhaps the first direct) demonstration that the orchideous type of flower has two stamineal verticils, as Brown always insisted. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
They almost plead with their maid of honour not to dress them up in a hideous outfit and make them drink. Times, Sunday Times
After a little Dizziness, and confused Hurry of Thought, which a Man often meets with in a Dream, methoughts the Hall was alarm'd, the Doors flew open, and there entered half a dozen of the most hideous Phantoms that I had ever seen (even in a Dream) before that Time. The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
Most noises resonate for about 20 seconds - even the most hideous sounds become euphonous when played in the Silophone. Boing Boing: May 13, 2001 - May 19, 2001 Archives
The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite. Les Miserables
How long did it take you to get over that hideous, saddle-sore feeling? Kate Hanni: Airline Seat Pitch as a Profit Booster?
In a painting, even an amateurish fencepost looks fine, but an amateurish face looks hideous. I’m Hearing Voice(s)
Not that there was much resemblance; it was just the only other countenance within the same ballpark of hideousness.
At any given time, the number of fashionable looks that will look hideous on all of us is vast. Times, Sunday Times
a hideous scar
The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
Because there's bound to be a few hideously unsympathetic and philandering surgeons on any given staff that will be seen as models for Alice's attendings. A Conversation with Elinor Lipman
They are hideous examples of concrete brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.
I have been repeatedly astonished by the angelic dispositions of people working for the poor, the maimed, and the doomed in the most hideous of circumstances where the children die in their care.
I'm sure Justin Timberlake left Cameron not so much because he has a fear of commitment, but more for the sake he has a fear of having his blood drained by this repellingly hideous chupacabra. Archive 2007-01-01
We know that care is hideously expensive and resources are limited. Times, Sunday Times
Hayden, who has had the kindness to start going about shirtless (His rather nice pecs draws one's gaze away from his always-frizzy, hideous hair, and his narrow, piglike eyes.), is trying to keep his showmance with Kristen a secret. Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : Tongue Digging
Death unerring blazed from the French barricade, -- not bullets only, but broken glass and ragged metal that tore hideous wounds in the ranks of the English. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
The primary aim of this thesis is to determine when the transformation of Medusa from a hideous monster into a beautiful woman initially occurs and whether this transformation is simultaneous with regard to both her full-figure representations and the gorgoneia.
The big flamboyant trim there is a crumpled bow formed out of hideously expensive and lavish striped grosgrain ribbon, accented with chocolate/pink spotted ribbon, coral pink velvet ribbon and a little carved button.
You want to know why it all went so hideously wrong so soon afterwards? Times, Sunday Times
Not all development is good; some of it is hideous, but most of the projects we are talking about are earmarked for areas where the cityscape has already been set.
Its nest, he says, is formed of moss at some height from the ground, supported on clusters of orchideous plants. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Are you wearing those hideous glasses to hide your dilated pupils or something?
We definitely got the most hideous make-up and prosthetics. The Sun
However, the terrible song in the middle of The Cheesecake Factory was kind of hideously romantic, so I certainly don't fault her for falling for it. TV Squad
I recently went to a local bonsai nursery and checked out the potted up White pines and the grafts were hideous.
The church adjoins narrow cobbled alleyways to the south, but hideous seventies offices to east and west.
And then she realised that the real-life prince she'd been oohing and aahing over all episode is a hideous inbred fug sporting a nose you could cut wood with.
Hideous, jarring Luther, filled with phlegmy death rattles, seeping brains, and motiveless daylight butcherings carried out by psychopaths "just for the lulz". Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
He covertly hired one of the era's poison pen writers, James Callendar to smear president John Adams as a "repulsive pedant" and "a hideous hermaphroditical character. Caryl Rivers: Goodbye to St. Barack
There was no brag or bounce about him, no hideousness of noise or mafficking, no hatred of foreigners or cruelty of uncharity, but a grim steadfastness of determination which meant that, so far as he might, Bates would do or die. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914
At last Colina tried to wave the hideous fantom away. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest
It's hideously severe from the front and it's backless, which is fine on a dress for a party, but for the red carpet a backless dress is a disaster. Golden Globes 2012 – as it happened
One of the biggest reasons this trend has not become infectious on Main Street is the word 'perm' brings back hideous memories from the '80s," Mr. Terzian said. The Perm Is Back
Yet it was not the wolf-cry, for long ago the malformation of a healing throat-wound had distorted the bell-like cry into a hideous scream like the shriek of a soul foredamned, which quavered loud and shrill upon the keen air and ended in a series of quick jerks, like stabs of horrible laughter. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
It's all going swimmingly well, until a strange old hermit blunders in to their lives and infects one of them with a hideous bug that literally eats you alive.
The lack of sensitivity to her new fame is hideous. Times, Sunday Times
All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare.
There were many times when a hideous day (or month, or year) at the job felt a little better when I could look myself in the eye (using a mirror, as opposed to a prehensile eyestalk) and tell myself that at least I made my word quota. More writing advice, good and bad «
Throughout the dark ages and down to the present century, the hideous and unnecessary apparatus employed, each decade bringing forth new types, is abundantly pictured in the older books on surgery; in some almost recent works there are pictures of windlasses and of individuals making superhuman efforts to pull the luxated member back -- all of which were given to the student as advisable means of treatment. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The essence was there in all its hideous implication. Nerve gas tests with human tissue.
Every article on the breakfast table was fetched away with a hideous crash.
It is a hideously ugly place, looming out of a vast plain next to majestic mountains. Times, Sunday Times
Behind them, upon the stern, was perched a hideous and beardless African, gorgeously arrayed in a dark tunic heavily laced with gold, a richly chased and adorned scimiter at his side, and a red fez jauntily set on one side of his misshapen head. Paul Patoff
Nobody will give a damn whether you're wearing your best designer wear or not, so don't be afraid to wear that hideous green woollen sweater your aunt knitted you one Christmas.
She was perfectly hideous, with a marvellous, stifled comedy. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe Monica has a bobby pin. -I'm sure. Monica. -So, how's the hideously inappropriate crush on Rachel coming?
The quaint grossbeak, the ugly heron, the dirty-black buzzard, the hideous water-goose, with his featherless body and satiric head, start up from their nooks as you enter; the water moccasin slides warily into the slime; and if you see a sudden movement in the centre of a leaden-colored mass, with a flash or two of white in it, you will do well to beware, for half a dozen alligators may show themselves at home there. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
Then he shook the bridle, shouted loudly and guided Pegasus, not aslantwise as before, but straight at the monster's hideous front. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
The contestants are dressed in hideous skin-tight foil body suits. The Sun
If anything the print looked more hideous on. Times, Sunday Times
Jade green whole body irregular sweating, Moncler Outlet, the grade is more high, then and more can feel that hideous feeling-like station's felling in the Hong Huang fierce animals in front.
What appeared to be an original Cezanne hung on the wall above an ungainly sofa, upholstered in a hideous, embroidered fabric of pale green. DOUBTING THOMAS

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