Miranda Hart

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.

English Actress

Jayma Mays

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!

American Actress

Arthur Sullivan

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.

British Composer

Giles Deacon

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.

British Designer

Nancy Juvonen

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.

American Producer

H. P. Lovecraft

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.

American Novelist

Melissa McCarthy

I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.

Sloane Crosley

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

American Writer

Stendhal

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

French Writer

Bob Dylan

American Musician

Use 'hideous' to vividly describe someone or something's physical features in a negative way.

Physical Attributes

'Hideous' implies a level of ugliness that causes fear or horror, not just normal unattractiveness.

Beyond Ugly

Using 'hideous' often shows the speaker's strong emotional response to something very unpleasant to look at.

Emotional Reaction

Use 'hideous' to describe situations or actions that are morally shocking or horrifying.

Shocking Contexts

'Hideous' indicates a strong sense of revulsion, especially when relating to behavior or actions.

Conveys Disgust

This word is often used to express outrage against something seen as unjust or cruel.

Expresses Outrage

 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

Pointing to the future...

 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?

Steven Pinker and...

 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

The strange story of 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

Karoli Hindriks: Why the...

 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.

The case against "good"...

 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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 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

What comes after...

 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.

Bill Ford: A future...

 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,

Can we choose to fall...

 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

Hideous

Extremely ugly or unattractive.

Often appears as...

Very shocking, unpleasant, or offensive.

Often appears as...

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