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Meanings of hideous in English

Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror.

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So extremely ugly as to be terrifying.

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Examples for "repulsive"
Examples for "repulsive"
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His manners are to ninety-nine in one hundred singularly repulsive; brow-hanging; shoe-contemplating-strange
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
2
This result suggests that the observed trend is driven by repulsive interactions.
Pubmed
3
Clearly, the Council finds the recent activities of the Fomor somewhat repulsive.
Ghost Story
4
Most people agree that at some level wealth starts to become repulsive.
The Guardian
5
Yet to us the system is not the less repulsive in itself.
Yet Again
Usage of hideous in English
1
It simply discloses a new and hideous fact about the world order.
The Guardian
2
You finish one hideous case, and there's another one right behind it.
Love at first flight: one round trip that would change everythin...
3
The hideous day wore on; one of the worst I went through.
Short Stories of Various Types
4
I know it's a hideous thought but-well it might be true, Anne.
A Stir of Echoes
5
I see that you agree in some hideous way with Margery's diagnosis.
The great lover
6
The whole place seemed to him hideous and loathsome in the extreme.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
7
Only the red upholsteries there were hideous; she would alter all that.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
8
All too often, it's about working out which is the least hideous.
Jacinto's Remnant
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The story was so hideous she suspected it had to be true.
A clash of kings
10
Flydd had grovelled, a hideous sight; the Aachim had accepted his concessions.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
11
Yes; anything is better than the hideous darkness of this hideous place.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
12
Pine knows it's ultimately hideous, knows he can't play the part forever.
The Guardian
13
That hideous sinking feeling is simply part of life's rich emotional tapestry.
The Guardian
14
For a moment a hideous sense of humiliation came over the woman.
The picture of Dorian Gray
15
And the absence of any personal hatred made this mockery more hideous.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
16
Now, in the silence and the darkness, a hideous secret was revealed.
Man and Wife
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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Ireland
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