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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 statement issued by Netanyahu and Gideon Saar on Thursday accused the New York Times of "one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

He walked seven batters every nine innings, which is hideous.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 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

He couldn’t believe that Spurge had recently imagined him that way, hideous and growling.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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