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hideousness

/hid-ee-uhs/US // ˈhɪd i əs //UK // (ˈhɪdɪəs) //

狰狞,丑陋,狰狞性,面目狰狞

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
    • : shocking or revolting to the moral sense: a hideous crime.
    • : distressing; appalling: the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.

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Examples

  • There’s Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the hideous yet hapless Trumpist who mentored hatemonger Stephen Miller.

  • For others, it’s an ugly graveyard, the evidence of one of our nation’s most hideous acts of industrial hubris, damning the Southwest’s largest free-flowing artery, the Colorado River.

  • You can draw the line from Andy Warhol to these hideous, hundred-and-whatever storied towers full of super rich semi-residents along the southern edge of Central Park.

  • As hideous as it is now, to Peinado and others there’s no way to imagine it getting anything but worse.

  • 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.