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
There was also the matter of her personal appearance, which she conceived to be repulsive: she was confident that she looked a hideosity and a sight.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
