How do you use the word "hideous" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hideous": A hideous monster used to live there. Some things get more hideous, when you clean them.

Hideous Meaning

/ˈhɪd.i.əs/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjExtremely or shockingly ugly.

adjHaving a very unpleasant or frightening sound.

Sentence Examples

A hideous monster used to live there.

Some things get more hideous, when you clean them.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

ugly horrific offensive

Antonyms:

beautiful

CEFR Practice Quiz

The old building had a ____ appearance with broken windows and moldy walls.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The monster in the horror movie had a ____ face that terrified all the children in the audience.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hidous, from Anglo-Norman hidous, from Old French hideus, hydus (“that which inspires terror”), from earlier hisdos, from Old French hisda (“horror, fear”), of uncertain and disputed origin. Probably from Proto-West Germanic *agisiþu (“horror, terror”), from Proto-West Germanic *agisōn (“to frighten, terrorise”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to frighten”). Cognate with Old High German egisa, egidī (“horror”), Old English egesa (“fear, dread”), Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (agis, “fear, terror”). Alternative etymology cites possible derivation from Latin hispidosus (“rugged”), from hispidus (“rough, bristly”), yet the semantic evolution is less plausible.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"the Duke's army departed unmolested : but the highway along which he retired presented a piteous and hideous spectacle." — 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

"Like the "Kas," these locomotives were originally semi-streamlined, although their conical snout was not nearly so hideous as the sloping mock-radiators adorning the bigger engines." — 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:

"He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard." — 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

"[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?" — c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], signature C3, recto:

"Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver." — c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

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