Hideously is an English word with synonyms like monstrously. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hideously meaning
- In a hideous manner.
- To an extreme degree.
Synonyms of Hideously
Using Hideously
- The main meaning on this page is: In a hideous manner. | To an extreme degree.
- Useful related words include: horridly, monstrously.
- In the example corpus, hideously often appears in combinations such as: hideously ugly, the hideously.
Context around Hideously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hideously
- In this selection, "hideously" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, government, unstable, suffer, ugly, high and gloriously stand out and add context to how "hideously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include forget the hideously creepy countdowns and great man hideously offended. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hideously" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hideously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s hideously, gloriously, gaspingly cold. (6 words)
Was the great man hideously offended? (6 words)
She was reputed to be hideously ugly. (7 words)
Can we still blame it on the hideously imperialistic Sykes-Picot deal by which Europeans after World War I carved the region up into spheres of influence and imposed a crazy map creating a mixture of brand-new countries that made no sense? (43 words)
Late one warm night, as finals loomed, I was beating the familiar pavement between 42 when I saw a hideously disgusting, frighteningly large creature crawl out of the gutter on 8 Avenue and lumber down the street. (37 words)
A new death penalty law should apply only to those convicted of the aggravated murder of a child (which usually means killing a child after making her or him suffer hideously). (31 words)
Who can forget the hideously creepy countdowns in for the birthdays of celebrities like Charlotte Church and Emma Watson? (19 words)
Can we still blame it on the hideously imperialistic Sykes-Picot deal by which Europeans after World War I carved the region up into spheres of influence and imposed a crazy map creating a mixture of brand-new countries that made no sense? (43 words)
Was the great man hideously offended? (6 words)
Example sentences (13)
Despite energy bills looking set to fall, what we pay for gas and electricity is still hideously high compared with 18 months ago.
It’s hideously, gloriously, gaspingly cold.
One expert I spoke to called aspects of Hong Kong’s government “hideously complicated,” but to understand some of the protesters’ demands, it’s worth going over the basics.
So on the most crucial political issue of the past three years, both of the BBC’s two flagship political programmes were hideously biased against Brexit.
Unlike the structurally unstable, hideously deformed Deviants, the Eternals were capable of living for centuries and were able to easily pass for humans.
Who can forget the hideously creepy countdowns in for the birthdays of celebrities like Charlotte Church and Emma Watson?
A new death penalty law should apply only to those convicted of the aggravated murder of a child (which usually means killing a child after making her or him suffer hideously).
Can we still blame it on the hideously imperialistic Sykes-Picot deal by which Europeans after World War I carved the region up into spheres of influence and imposed a crazy map creating a mixture of brand-new countries that made no sense?
Late one warm night, as finals loomed, I was beating the familiar pavement between 42 when I saw a hideously disgusting, frighteningly large creature crawl out of the gutter on 8 Avenue and lumber down the street.
Cunégonde has indeed become hideously ugly, but Candide nevertheless buys their freedom and marries Cunégonde to spite her brother (who is secretly sold back into slavery).
Once, when walking a beach, he came upon a hideously ugly man—the prophet in disguise.
She was reputed to be hideously ugly.
Was the great man hideously offended?
Common combinations with hideously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: