hideous

Example Sentences

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No Triple Crown, no hope of winning the Six Nations title, no end to their hideous run of defeats against Ireland - now standing at 12 and with no discernible sign of it stopping there.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Car manufacturers that continued to churn out hideous gas guzzlers have long since vanished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

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

It was a shrill and hideous sound: metal screeching on metal.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell