hideous

Somehow, a campus I once thought hideous has become beautiful to me.

“We went on to Tramp…He was the most hideous dancer I had ever seen,” she tells the Mail.

On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.

And the Jamaica Observer routinely runs hideous cartoons about gay people and incites violence against them.

To be clear, this account is in no way meant to excuse these hideous attacks—only perhaps to explain them.

These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.

Aristide in a hideous red mask and with a bag of confetti under his arm, plunged with enthusiasm into the revelry.

On the upper part of each of these posts was a rude carving of a hideous human face with prominent teeth.

A hideous old crone covered with rags knelt beside the Duchesss, who on leaving the church offered her holy water.

During all this time they howl continually in a most discordant manner, and make the most hideous faces.

In the second part of the poem the lady is threatened by an unwelcome suitor, in the person of a hideous giant.