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hideousness

[ UK /hˈɪdi‍əsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness

How To Use hideousness In A Sentence

  • Not that there was much resemblance; it was just the only other countenance within the same ballpark of hideousness.
  • 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
  • The kings were the biggest, handsomest fish and definitely the main event, but I also liked the chums a.k.a. dog salmon for their unlikely hideousness. Fool’s Paradise
  • My lord was smiling, so the auctioneer prattled on, and the deformed creature upon the catasta wound his ill-shapen body into every kind of contortion, grinning from ear to ear, displaying the malformation of his spine, and the hideousness of his long hairy arms, whilst he uttered weird cries that were supposed to imitate those of wild animals in the forest. "Unto Caesar"
  • We’re all married now, so no more dresses, but it sure helped with the hideousness, even though I think I’m the only one who has managed to rewear a bridesmaid dress. Bridesmaid Dresses Can Be Worn Again, Thanks to Martha and Others
  • And if they are not actually hideous, then they're larging it with the lads - kit wraps them in hideousness.
  • A corner of the bluff rose savagely from the river -- a monstrous mass of naked rock, scarred and battered of the centuries; hating the river that gnawed it ever; hating the rain that graved its grim face with unsightly seams; hating the sun that refused to mate with it, whereof green life might come forth and hide its hideousness. CHAPTER 25
  • Time and tide wait for no man; brains may throb, and hearts may ache or break, but the world rolls on just the same, for weal and woe, whether the grim skeleton that comes an unbidden guest on so many a man's hearth is shrouded in elegance or bare in all its appalling hideousness. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
  • I hope this doesn't sound like boasting, but as soon as all the frumps saw my get-up, they bowed to my superior hideousness.
  • I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness. Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, Without Motto, 1907-1908 : Coin Guide
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