亚洲网紅露点

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hideous

[ hid-ee-uhs ]

adjective

  1. horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly:

    a hideous monster.

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  2. shocking or revolting to the moral sense:

    a hideous crime.

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  3. distressing; appalling:

    the hideous expense of moving one's home to another city.



hideous

/ 藢h瑟d瑟藞蓲s瑟t瑟; 藞h瑟d瑟蓹s /

adjective

  1. extremely ugly; repulsive

    a hideous person

  2. terrifying and horrific
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞丑颈诲别辞耻蝉濒测, adverb
  • 藞丑颈诲别辞耻蝉苍别蝉蝉, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 丑颈诲顎侥路辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
  • 丑颈诲顎侥路辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 丑颈诲路别路辞蝉路颈路迟测 [hid-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun
  • 耻苍路丑颈诲顎侥路辞耻蝉 adjective
  • un路丑颈诲顎侥路辞耻蝉路濒测 adverb
  • un路丑颈诲顎侥路辞耻蝉路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hideous1

1275鈥1325; Middle English hidous < Old French hisdos, equivalent to hisde horror, fright (perhaps < Old High German *egisida, akin to egis么n, agison to frighten) + -os -ous; suffix later assimilated to -eous
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hideous1

C13: from Old French hisdos, from hisde fear; of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

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Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things.

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"Who the hell in the world can cope with those interest rates? Nobody. No business anywhere can cope with that. It's hideous," he said.

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Dunlop had told the Parole Board panel he had been a "violent, hideous, uncaring person" who could have gone on to kill other people.

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"It's just been hideous, really hideous, and I don't know why it happened," Naomi tells us.

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The yard was hideous, she said, composed almost entirely of boring hedges.

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