hideous
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In nearly every speech where he mentions Paxton, Trump has to talk about how hideous the guy is and how poorly he supposedly dresses.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
Face our fear and root it out, even if it means excavating the hideous rot of actual history?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such austerity only whetted my childhood fondness for concoctions that now make me wince: grape soda, root beer, orange Fanta, even a hideous insipid confection known as cream soda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even more striking than the population growth of unicorns has been their swelling sizes, which has set off a portmantavalanche of hideous new classifications.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
But sometimes it’s easier to believe a pretty lie over a hideous truth.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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