1 offensive, extremely ugly, or shocking: --
The bathroom was pink and green and silver – it was absolutely hideous.
That is an appalling prospect, and a hideous responsibility would descend on the shoulders of anyone who connived at or accepted such a proposal.
Is there no possibility of distributing electricity without covering the whole country with these hideous pylons?
It had all those other things—valves, hideous enclosures, concrete posts and wire netting, telephone wires going to little huts, and so on.
Does he not agree that, to put the matter very kindly indeed, these edifices are at the very least hideous, impractical and expensive?
He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
Why truncate it in this hideous fashion?
For rather than providing a wholesale endorsement of the interests of the state, the poem hinges on the rejection of a "hideous blunder" made by an official military institution.
Now, life gushed into the dust; now, organised matter combined, and suddenly stood in front of the throne - the hideous camel.
