1
: offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly
hideous furniture
The dress looked hideous on her.
2
: morally offensive : shocking
a hideous crime
Examples of hideous in a Sentence
The room was filled with hideous furniture.
the hideous way in which she treated her maid after she discovered her ring was missing
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Luthor combats Superman through a combination of science and technology — injecting nanobot GPS trackers into Superman’s bloodstream — using methods that recall the hideous Covid manipulation.
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Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025
The dark edge in Bushnell’s writing reflects less a brave new world than a world that is the hideous extension of the old one.
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june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
One function of bug poems is to remind us that messier and more hideous relations always obtain.
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An alarming situation looked all the more hideous as boos rained down at Dodger Stadium for the club’s fourth straight loss.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025
The dark edge in Bushnell’s writing reflects less a brave new world than a world that is the hideous extension of the old one.
—Alice Bolin
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
One function of bug poems is to remind us that messier and more hideous relations always obtain.
—Hannah Brooks-Motl
june 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
An alarming situation looked all the more hideous as boos rained down at Dodger Stadium for the club’s fourth straight loss.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for hideous
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“Hideous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hideous. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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