Definition of Hideous

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Definition of Hideous
	Hideous Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise. Hateful; shocking. Related Definitions: As, Behold, Dismay, Distressing, Dreadful, Ear, Exciting, Frightful, Hateful, Hideous, Monster, Noise, Offensive, Or, Shocking, Terror, The, To

Hideous Quotations

The radio makes hideous sounds.
Bob Dylan

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
Henny Youngman

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Herman Melville

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
Kathy Griffin

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
Julian Clary

Hideous Translations

hideous in Dutch is afgrijselijk, afschuwelijk
hideous in Italian is abominevole, abominabile
hideous in Latin is informis
hideous in Norwegian is heslig, skrekkelig
hideous in Spanish is horroroso, abominable

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