hideous
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Rathnayake charged him a ball later and was caught skying a hideous swipe.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
Most of us have received at least one Christms present that missed the mark - a jumper that doesn't fit, a hideous ornament or a perfume you don't like.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
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
That two of them involve hideous versions of childbirth isn’t accidental.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025
“That’s a very good wheeze, my dear Sponge. But let’s make him finish chopping up the wood first. Be off with you at once, you hideous brat, and do some work!”
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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