How do you use Hideous in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like horrid or horrific, plus the exact meaning.
Hideous meaning
- Extremely or shockingly ugly.
- Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound.
- Hateful; shocking.
Using Hideous
- The main meaning on this page is: Extremely or shockingly ugly. | Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound. | Hateful; shocking.
- Useful related words include: horrid, horrific, outrageous, offensive.
- In the example corpus, hideous often appears in combinations such as: hideous and, the hideous, his hideous.
Context around Hideous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hideous
- In this selection, "hideous" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, showed, latest, committing, smile, possible and grin stand out and add context to how "hideous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at the hideous antisemitism occurring and bearing his hideous grin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hideous" sits close to words such as abiola, algebras and altria, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hideous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The forgetfulness she experienced was "hideous" too. (7 words)
Should avoid any grammatical and spelling mistakes that can be hideous to read. (13 words)
These hideous spending and borrowing eruptions represented, instead, the overwhelming consensus of the bipartisan uniparty. (15 words)
The pair also discuss the consequences of a wrongful conviction for those around them, such as how Ms Knox will at one point need to explain to her young daughter about how she was "once described as the most hideous woman on Earth". (43 words)
Everyone should be appalled at the hideous antisemitism occurring within living memory of the Holocaust, but if you don’t have the decency to be alarmed at that, Ontarians at least should realize their future medical care is at stake. (40 words)
Not only does she become obsessed with killing Snow White, but she becomes so dead set on doing it that she even turns herself into a hideous old hag, just to deceive Snow White and deliver a poison apple. (39 words)
To ask the obvious question: Why go on a reality show if you’re committing hideous crimes? (17 words)
But let’s not use the colors of the San Diego City Connect Padres uniforms please, it’s hideous! (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
As the Las Plagas parasite continued to evolve, Saddler's efforts proved successful, giving rise to hideous and violent organisms such as the bug-like Novistadors.
Dea, worried by his absence, is relieved he is back, but Gwynplaine is overcome by guilt, and allows Dea to feel his hideous smile for the first time, believing she should know how ugly he truly is.
He’s had this hideous possible majority in the United States Senate and only a very small majority in the House.
In the short video clip, the clown stalks the village streets, sits on park benches and walks down darkened streets while bearing his hideous grin.
It’s hideous, it’s a monstrosity – which is why the whole community got involved in this.
Judge Kate Rayfield said that Talbot showed "hideous behaviour" especially towards the boy that he racially abused.
Not only does she become obsessed with killing Snow White, but she becomes so dead set on doing it that she even turns herself into a hideous old hag, just to deceive Snow White and deliver a poison apple.
Should avoid any grammatical and spelling mistakes that can be hideous to read.
Suicide is the most hideous, traumatic, life-changing event for family members, done by people who are seriously psychiatrically unwell and who did not need to die.
That’s the question editors should be asking themselves after the newspaper was forced into a over cartoonist Martin Rowson’s latest hideous attempt at satire.
The forgetfulness she experienced was "hideous" too.
The pair also discuss the consequences of a wrongful conviction for those around them, such as how Ms Knox will at one point need to explain to her young daughter about how she was "once described as the most hideous woman on Earth".
These damn tests are hideous and spoil what should be the best last year of primary.
These hideous spending and borrowing eruptions represented, instead, the overwhelming consensus of the bipartisan uniparty.
To ask the obvious question: Why go on a reality show if you’re committing hideous crimes?
According to mythology, a tupilaq can be created by combining various animal parts into the shape of a hideous creature, which a shaman then brings to life.
Adding brutally that “her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous, well shaped.
But let’s not use the colors of the San Diego City Connect Padres uniforms please, it’s hideous!
Everyone should be appalled at the hideous antisemitism occurring within living memory of the Holocaust, but if you don’t have the decency to be alarmed at that, Ontarians at least should realize their future medical care is at stake.
Flag-burning must be allowed because it’s a form of (hideous, odious) Free Speech.
Common combinations with hideous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hideous and 10×
- the hideous 7×
- his hideous 4×
- into hideous 4×
- are hideous 4×
- is hideous 4×
- and hideous 4×
- to hideous 3×
- this hideous 3×
- it hideous 3×