How to use hideous in a sentence

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• Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.From the entry utter
• What a fright you looked in that hideous outfit.From the entry look
• This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper.2015 April 21, Julie Burchill, “Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor”, in The Spectator. From the entry pushmi-pullyu
• I wipe away the tears of unjoy before they stain the hideous, stiff bedspread.2013, Anna Banks, Of Triton. From the entry unjoy
• We had these hideous wenchlike uniforms: peasant blouses with poufy skirts.2010, Marni Jameson, House of Havoc. From the entry wenchlike
• What a terrible fate for any politician, to be doughnutted by hideous lacerations!2009 May 8, Simon Hoggart, Send Up the Clowns: Parliamentary Sketches 2007–2011, Guardian Books, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry doughnut
• He’s so pretty!” or “Oh jeez, she’s hideous!” instead of “Oh jeez!2006, “How ‘Not’ to Faceswap”, in I’ve Got a Human in My Throat: Create More Optical Delusions with Adobe Photoshop, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry faceswap
• While running, they were exposed to the most hideous bespawling imaginable.2002, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Depraved and Insulting English. From the entry imaginable
• Walk to Shazzer's from polling station was hideous walk of shame.2001 [1999], Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry platform
• They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry palisade
• The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry groceria
• Then, as if a spring had been loosed, the world suddenly leaped to a hideous life.1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle. From the entry rafale
• And there was many a pretty face that smiled in disease; and many a life there hideous.1913, John Kerry King, Southeast Asia in Perspective, University of California, page 150. From the entry superself
• On the contrary, they had just announced their engagement in the form of a hideous art installation made of candyfloss.2018, Jo Nesbø, chapter 11, in The Thirst, Vintage Canada, page 123. From the entry trophy boyfriend
• Sounds quite hideous, I realise, but he looked so zhuzh!2014, Joanne Brodie, People Who Are Addicted To Sex, →ISBN. From the entry zhuzh
• Keen to find the perpetrator of such a hideous act of gnomicide he raced out of the gate.2014, James Oliver, Jim’s Alien, →ISBN. From the entry gnomicide
• Appalled by a child she found hideous, Philyra begged the gods to free her from having to rear such an abomination.2012, Kathleen Jenks, “Cronus”, in Brian Kinsey, editor, Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry abomination
• A plus, I thought, his sweater isn't hideous!2008, Alix Strauss, Have I Got a Guy for You: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes You Up, Polka Dot Press, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry Bill Cosby sweater
• For a hideous instant, he thought the reserve lines would wrap around the mains and he’d repeat Komarov’s messy death.2007 September 5, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, “March 25, 1969: Over the Gobi Desert, Outer Mongolia”, in Red Moon, Barrington…. From the entry flumpf
• Brown, and the rest, are hideous and malignant creatures all, and prey to their own craven, violent, and envious natures.1994, Michael Swanwick, “In the Tradition...”, in Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual…. From the entry corviform
• Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes.1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale. From the entry blotchwork
• He's humanoid outside, but inside, he's a hideous, murdering monster.1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, Robert Brown (actor). From the entry humanoid
• He can't help having a hideous great hooter!1964, A Hard Day's Night, spoken by Grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell). From the entry hooter
• He pushed open the door, and a hideous cheesy smell of sour beer hit him in the face.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 8. From the entry cheesy
• "It is the motion and smell of this hideous train.1940, Joseph Shearing [pseudonym; Marjorie Bowen], “Part One”, in The Crime of Laura Sarelle, [Cleveland, Oh.]: DigiCat, published 2022. From the entry condole
• And the reason for it is that this hideous traffic is one of the main cogs in our political machine.1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine. From the entry political machine
• But this time Mr Butt turned his gruesome, bared back-butt to me and let fly with a hideous windripper that must have broken records.2016, Steve Cole, Invisible Inc., →ISBN. From the entry back-butt
• Above all, in the medley of Aryans, Mongols and aborigines, which it created, it unconsciously led the way to some of the hideous Vamacharas.1993, Venkateswarier Subramaniam, Buddhist-Hindu Interactions: From Śakyamuni to Śankarācarya, page 73. From the entry vamachara
• All the other shoppers were mousepeople, too, each one a nightmarish assemblage of disparate organs, the hideous creation of some demented vivisectionist, some latter-day Dr.1987 July, Vance Aandahl, “Deathmatch In Disneyland”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 73, number 1 (whole 434)…. From the entry Disneyphilia
• After all, in this hideous war we have just passed through never forget that Halifax would have treated with Hitler: it took Churchill to refuse.1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber. From the entry treat
• Spiders are all predatory, some even cannibalistic; they may be grotesque, even hideous to look at – although some are extraordinarily beautiful.1976, Barbara York Main, Spiders (The Australian Naturalist Library), Sydney: William Collins Publishers, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry araneophobe
• Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58. From the entry lawnmower
• The croton bushes, by day hideous things like jaundiced laurels, were changed by the moon into jagged black and white designs like fantastic wood-cuts.1934, George Orwell, chapter 15, in Burmese Days. From the entry croton
• The room into which I was ushered, with its leering volutes and hideous bellyings of brown mahogany, intimately reminded me of a Beardsley drawing.1926, Violet Hunt, “1910-11”, in The Flurried Years, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 161. From the entry bellying
• Moving about in experiment or sitting motionless in study were scores of the most hideous Martians they had yet seen—octopoid creature with enormous staring eyes and eight black tentacles.1956, Amazing Stories. From the entry octopoid
• I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal — cacodaemoniacal — and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.1921, HP Lovecraft, The Nameless City. From the entry cacodaemoniacal
• For one frightful moment there was no sound; even the men's breathing was hushed, and they sat slack-jawed, stunned, half-minded to believe this some hideous, incredible jest.1911, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 26, in The Ne'er-Do-Well. From the entry slack-jawed
• It was furnished in early Laminex and the hideous conflict between the polystyrene beams with their regular moulded knot-holes and the wipe-down sterility of puke surfaces made for emotional astigmatism.1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 7. From the entry laminex

Meaning of hideous

1. adjective Extremely or shockingly ugly.
2. adjective Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.
3. adjective Hateful; shocking.

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Questions about hideous in a sentence

How do you use hideous in a sentence?

Hideous is used as an adjective. For example: “I’m sorry to break it to you, but your dress looks truly hideous.”

What is a short sentence with hideous?

“A plus, I thought, his sweater isn't hideous!”

What does hideous mean?

Hideous means extremely or shockingly ugly.