hideously
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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
"I think I managed to get eight flights through before I had to get my own flight... I was clapped out of the airport, which was lovely but hideously embarrassing," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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
Bull’s face was hideously contorted as he stood face to face with Ben, who was trembling involuntarily.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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