hideously

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

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

"Preventing our emergency services from reaching those who desperately need them is indefensible, hideously selfish and in no way in the public interest," Ms Braverman said on Saturday.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022

The high school football coach wondering why a sport that must be played outside in hideously heavy gear is a fall activity in California?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2022

The next face she makes is so hideously ugly, so strange, I feel like I’m about to split apart at the seams.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy