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How to use hideous in a sentence

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Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
When we entered, our ears were assaulted by the hideous muzak dripping from the sound system.
A human life has ended through one of the most hideous execution methods ever devised.
These malevolent creatures could only cause utter despair and hideous circumstances wherever they sojourned.
I let out a hideous animal sound as I sank to my knees to finish off this beast.
The church adjoins narrow cobbled alleyways to the south, but hideous seventies offices to east and west.
They are hideous examples of concrete brutalism, dilapidated and badly-run and best demolished.
The hideous, grating noise lasted for only a few seconds, and then the blessed silence of the forest poured back in.
Satan in the cinema is either represented as a hideous special effect or a comic, bumbling trickster.
Before vanishing altogether, the woman warrior becomes a hideous virago in prints and paintings in France and abroad.
There's the arty Bohemian society of the Verdurins, the most hideous vulgarians in literature.
Suddenly, a herd of hideous, strange animals stampeded by, as the strange man next to Jack launched arrows into the group.
As well as animal forms, demons can have other grotesque and hideous forms.
The best thing about this withdrawal is that my first was so hideous that this seems like a walk in the park.
I nearly stayed in, but the thought of the Scottish TV Hogmanay special was just too hideous to contemplate.
Anti-intellectualism is a hideous canker in our society, but it feeds on needless pretension and superiority.
As in so many American plays, the past haunts the present and contains a hideous secret that is known but never acknowledged.
The phantasmagoria includes a scene depicting the French emperor reviewing an army of hideous demons.
From one of these offices a heavyset, middle-aged woman in a hideous floral dress and a black perm hairdo leaned out.
It was the most hideous, black stripy wallpaper but I don't want to take it down because it's his.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In spite of all my endeavours to escape I was hurried in with that hideous mob of ferocious-looking men and brazen-faced women.
The hideous monstrosities of post-Reformation times did not then disfigure our churches.
He was suffering from a scrofulous ulcer in the neck, and it was a hideous disfigurement.
The foolishness would not be so noticeable if the brokenness were not so hideous and genuine and actual and matter-of-course.
For the next ten years he was more or less concerned with the hideous atrocities of the albigensian war.
How well I remembered being sick as a child from the puggy smell of its hideous interior.
Suddenly the hideous consequences of it all, the afterclap, sounded in their ears.
But the moments vent by, and still no hideous stain rose to empurple the green translucent plain of liquid light.
It was the hideous hammer-headed shark, the dreaded zygaena of the Celebes Sea.
The scaly hairless head beneath the centaurian's white globe device bore a face that was blankly hideous.
It raised its hideous, flatted head for a moment, then lowered it, and lay there regarding them with its deadly eye.
And this ganesh, the son of Siva, is represented by the grossest and most hideous idol.
There were hideous welts and gashes and half-healed scars all over his body.
If Bellerophon had been told truly, it was in one of those dismal valleys that the hideous chimaera had taken up its abode.
Lakshmana thereupon cuts off her nose and ears, rendering her redundantly hideous.
The late Mr. Walter Pater was once invited to admire a hideous wedding-present, compact of ormolu and malachite.
The hideous creature of the night was the mother of Grendel, as all knew well.
His lips, stained a hideous red by the betel nut juice, opened in a derisive smile and revealed his blackened teeth.
True, all hideous regimes had their figleaf intellectuals and with a few exceptions, the regimes in the Balkans are not hideous.
This awful typhoon caught Venice in its gyration, affording a splendidly hideous field for philosophical reflection.
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