hideous
adjective
horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly.
hideosity
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a word derived from
hideous.
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
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 Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
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 Bertram Mitford
Beauty in distress appeals to the susceptibilities of man, whereas hideosity in similar case does not—unchivalric, even brutal as the confession may sound.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
