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hideous

[hid-ee-uhs] / ˈhɪd i əs /


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Besides, D.C. could even offer the DNC a solution to what is otherwise sure to be a process full of hideous legal and political dilemmas.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

When we meet Yee’s shifting character, he first resembles a hideous beast reminiscent of F.W.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Overnight my finger had become more hideous than Antony Ralston's backpass against Switzerland at last year's Euros.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

“Oh, poor hideous fox. You poor thing. Are you the one who’s been wandering in a dark forest all night?”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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