Hideous
adjective
Extremely ugly or unattractive.
The monster was hideous with large teeth and bulging eyes.
Often appears as...
- hideous monster
- hideous sight
adjective
Very shocking, unpleasant, or offensive.
The results of the war were hideous - destruction and death were everywhere.
Often appears as...
- hideous crime
- hideous behavior
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Extremely ugly or unattractive.
The monster was hideous with large teeth and bulging eyes.
Often appears as...
- hideous monster
- hideous sight
adjective
Very shocking, unpleasant, or offensive.
The results of the war were hideous - destruction and death were everywhere.
Often appears as...
- hideous crime
- hideous behavior
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Attributes
Use 'hideous' to vividly describe someone or something's physical features in a negative way.
He wore a mask to cover his hideous scars.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Ugly
'Hideous' implies a level of ugliness that causes fear or horror, not just normal unattractiveness.
The haunted house was decorated with hideous figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'hideous' often shows the speaker's strong emotional response to something very unpleasant to look at.
She recoiled at the hideous sight of the abandoned home.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Attributes
Use 'hideous' to vividly describe someone or something's physical features in a negative way.
He wore a mask to cover his hideous scars.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Ugly
'Hideous' implies a level of ugliness that causes fear or horror, not just normal unattractiveness.
The haunted house was decorated with hideous figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'hideous' often shows the speaker's strong emotional response to something very unpleasant to look at.
She recoiled at the hideous sight of the abandoned home.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Attributes
Use 'hideous' to vividly describe someone or something's physical features in a negative way.
He wore a mask to cover his hideous scars.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Ugly
'Hideous' implies a level of ugliness that causes fear or horror, not just normal unattractiveness.
The haunted house was decorated with hideous figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Reaction
Using 'hideous' often shows the speaker's strong emotional response to something very unpleasant to look at.
She recoiled at the hideous sight of the abandoned home.
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Pointing to the future...
Computers and the programming languages that we talk to them in, that we teach them in, are hideously insensate when it comes to space. They don't understand real world space. It's a funny thing because the rest of us occupy it quite frequently and quite well. They also don't understand time, but that's a matter for a separate talk. So what happens if you start to
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Steven Pinker and...
But then, why does he write so many books about manifest truth? In view of the uncertainty, we must define heretics simply as one with whom we disagree. And if then we are going to kill heretics, the logical outcome will be a war of extermination, since each is sure of himself. Or with hideous punishments like breaking on the wheel?
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The strange story of the...
a special sort of tragedy for a toy. So we can explain that failure two ways. The first, well, it's pretty obvious. I'm going to go ahead and say it out loud Opossums are hideous. But maybe more importantly is that the story of the billy possum was all wrong, especially compared
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Karoli Hindriks: Why the...
It is a pretty accurate reflection of the immigration experiences today, and this is exactly the kind of hideous problem that I want to solve. And I know it can be solved because I have seen the Estonian society transform from one of the poorest countries in the world
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The case against "good"...
Perhaps my hair looks like a hideous mess of tangles and bald spots. Yet someone does not want to be honest, and offers the quick fix "good," to try and mask the truth and send me hurling into the evening with a plop of disorganized tresses. This will not do.
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Desert Flower PIPE National...
my picture I'll give you the money let's play for the picture we do this right change your life why do I want to do you I'm not being model is better than being cleaning lady can you walk yes I walk long way to Mogadishu yes hideous hideous take them all
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What comes after...
of an innocent, unarmed human being; the overwhelming grief of a family; the total confusion as you try to absorb a new, hideous reality. Needless to say it brought my life to a crashing halt. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do
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Bill Ford: A future...
And even though the color was pretty hideous, I did love the car, and it really cemented my love affair with cars that's continued on to this day. But cars are really more than a passion of mine; they're quite literally in my blood.
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Can we choose to fall...
even the compulsive parts. It isn't a neat, symmetrical Valentine's heart. It's bodily, it's systemic, it is a hideous pair of ram's horns buried somewhere deep within your skull,
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How did the Hammerhead...
survive and the whole new species is born was the first hammerhead one of these one-in-a-million freaks could its hideously distorted head have opened up a whole new way of life
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Pointing to the future...
Computers and the programming languages that we talk to them in, that we teach them in, are hideously insensate when it comes to space. They don't understand real world space. It's a funny thing because the rest of us occupy it quite frequently and quite well. They also don't understand time, but that's a matter for a separate talk. So what happens if you start to
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
But then, why does he write so many books about manifest truth? In view of the uncertainty, we must define heretics simply as one with whom we disagree. And if then we are going to kill heretics, the logical outcome will be a war of extermination, since each is sure of himself. Or with hideous punishments like breaking on the wheel?
Video examples
The strange story of the...
a special sort of tragedy for a toy. So we can explain that failure two ways. The first, well, it's pretty obvious. I'm going to go ahead and say it out loud Opossums are hideous. But maybe more importantly is that the story of the billy possum was all wrong, especially compared
Video examples
Karoli Hindriks: Why the...
It is a pretty accurate reflection of the immigration experiences today, and this is exactly the kind of hideous problem that I want to solve. And I know it can be solved because I have seen the Estonian society transform from one of the poorest countries in the world
Video examples
The case against "good"...
Perhaps my hair looks like a hideous mess of tangles and bald spots. Yet someone does not want to be honest, and offers the quick fix "good," to try and mask the truth and send me hurling into the evening with a plop of disorganized tresses. This will not do.
Video examples
Desert Flower PIPE National...
my picture I'll give you the money let's play for the picture we do this right change your life why do I want to do you I'm not being model is better than being cleaning lady can you walk yes I walk long way to Mogadishu yes hideous hideous take them all
Video examples
What comes after...
of an innocent, unarmed human being; the overwhelming grief of a family; the total confusion as you try to absorb a new, hideous reality. Needless to say it brought my life to a crashing halt. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do
Video examples
Bill Ford: A future...
And even though the color was pretty hideous, I did love the car, and it really cemented my love affair with cars that's continued on to this day. But cars are really more than a passion of mine; they're quite literally in my blood.
Video examples
Can we choose to fall...
even the compulsive parts. It isn't a neat, symmetrical Valentine's heart. It's bodily, it's systemic, it is a hideous pair of ram's horns buried somewhere deep within your skull,
Video examples
How did the Hammerhead...
survive and the whole new species is born was the first hammerhead one of these one-in-a-million freaks could its hideously distorted head have opened up a whole new way of life
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Quote examples
Miranda Hart
English Actress
It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.
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Jayma Mays
American Actress
I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!
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Arthur Sullivan
British Composer
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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Giles Deacon
British Designer
Students are up to their eyeballs in loans, and it's going to get even worse. It's going to be hideous, actually. Students are going to be saddled for life. It's going to put a lot of people off going to college, which is a shame.
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Nancy Juvonen
American Producer
Making comedies, you end up knowing people that you would swear would be the funnest people ever in the whole world. And they're not. They're really mean and depressed and hideous people.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
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Melissa McCarthy
American Actress
I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
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Stendhal
French Writer
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
The radio makes hideous sounds.
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Miranda Hart
English Actress
It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends from university have said, 'I quite fancied you, but I wouldn't have dared...' and I was like, 'Oh really?' I was completely amazed that anyone had ever fancied me, and also that I'd obviously given an impression of 'Don't touch me.
Quote examples
Jayma Mays
American Actress
I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!
Quote examples
Arthur Sullivan
British Composer
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
Quote examples
Giles Deacon
British Designer
Students are up to their eyeballs in loans, and it's going to get even worse. It's going to be hideous, actually. Students are going to be saddled for life. It's going to put a lot of people off going to college, which is a shame.
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Nancy Juvonen
American Producer
Making comedies, you end up knowing people that you would swear would be the funnest people ever in the whole world. And they're not. They're really mean and depressed and hideous people.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
Quote examples
Melissa McCarthy
American Actress
I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
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Stendhal
French Writer
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
The radio makes hideous sounds.
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