Example Sentences

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It’s reminded me of how high I’ve let my own hideosity bar get lately, and also of the fact that no one can lower it again but me.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2019

Where did this built-to-code 17-inch-wide hideosity come from?

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2017

He was trotted out, so to speak, in his skeleton, with his heart and lungs and muscles exposed to view in complex hideosity!

From The Iron Horse by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

She was a foreigner—though of what nationality the chronicle omits to state—of extraordinary beauty, and lived alone with a duenna of regulation age and hideosity.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

From this hideosity you must resolutely turn away; and then you may say, as I did, that your mortal eyes have never rested on any thing so lovely as the ruins of Calder Abbey.

From Travellers' Stories by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot