hideous
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Cowan added: "If you've got those egregious videos, where someone's putting out a hideous deepfake, they're not going to worry about adding that label."
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Car manufacturers that continued to churn out hideous gas guzzlers have long since vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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
When we meet Yee’s shifting character, he first resembles a hideous beast reminiscent of F.W.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
The demoniac wizards and the hideous old witches who haunted Europe and America, too, up to quite recent years, play no part at all in the stories.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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