hideous
adjective
horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly.
hideously
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a word derived from
hideous.
Example Sentences
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When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
By 1986 she and my father were divorcing, and hideously.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
On the screen we saw an aerial view of destroyed buildings, cratered streets, a bifurcated highway and then CSUN’s 2-year-old C-lot parking structure, which was bent hideously, like a broken leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
He’s just a hideously rich guy who wants to be president; this has never happened before, and would surely set a new precedent.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2023
I stared at the Sacred Rock, my tears mixing with the rain as they streamed down my cheeks, one smooth, one still hideously scarred.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
