(a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
(a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.
(a.) Hateful; shocking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hideously unfair council tax system would be replaced by land value taxation , through which everyone would benefit from the speculative gains now monopolised by a few.
(2) A hideous passing defense, meanwhile, has been upgraded hugely by the addition of cornerback Darrelle Revis.
(3) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
(5) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
(6) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
(7) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
(8) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
(9) He played in clubs and sent demo tapes to music producers, but met with rejection: "They would listen to them for 15 seconds and say 'Hideous!
(10) Abbott said at the time the pictures were another example of the “hideous atrocities” such groups were capable of.
(11) We thought it could be funny to combine the rural old man stereotype we get abroad with the hideous pop culture emphases we have on the language at home and to put Pól, Micheál and Síle in a world where they don't belong.
(12) She wrote in an article for the Independent that she had been pursued by online trolls and called an “aggressive feminist” with a “hideous personality”.
(13) Like a hideous old monster of myth, programmed only to protect itself, FPTP has confounded its enemies by flattering them, sweet-talking them, and making them into fools.
(14) The bike is hideous, a vast contraption with an illuminated panel that flashes your heart-rate at you.
(15) When Argos closes (and, God willing, it will, because what we're witnessing now is a recession-backed, online-fuelled evisceration of the high street too hideous for even Mary Portas to contemplate), how I'll laugh.
(16) The hospital that Orwell described in How the Poor Die was a place of hideous cruelty because the staff cared nothing for the patients.
(17) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(18) He adds: "In Australia's big cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still a hideous drain on the public purse.
(19) One part of the rule is correct: it's odd to use "that" with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in "The pair of shoes, that cost £5,000, was hideous."
(20) A nonrestrictive relative clause is set off by commas, dashes or parentheses, as in "The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous."
Lousy
Definition:
(a.) Infested with lice.
(a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.
Example Sentences:
(1) The centralised economic and political model is producing a lousy outcome that is unsustainable and must reform whatever happens next September.
(2) The first parasitic diseases to receive attention were usually those with distinctive characteristics as well as serious consequences, such as "gapes" and lousiness.
(3) The teams in the Worst Division In Professional Sports have been so lousy that a Least Worst Team hasn't even emerged when the teams play each other.
(4) (Hollande is already getting the T-shirt printed: "I intervened in Mali and all I got was this lousy camel.")
(5) They tried to teach us English, but it never worked, because the French had given us their lousy accent during colonisation.
(6) Contrary to popular belief, most cafes in Paris sell lousy coffee, but the barista revolution is arriving, and Nicolas Piegay opened the KB after discovering specialist coffee bars in Australia.
(7) As much as I hate those lousy – I love to hear them laugh!"
(8) Consequently the balance of employment has shifted upwards and downwards with less in between; as Manning puts it, the labour market has been polarising into "lovely and lousy jobs ".
(9) Real politics is mostly one damn thing after another – a big Commons vote, a shabby reselection campaign in Walthamstow , a lousy byelection result in Oldham .
(10) Regardless of the Yankees’ bad luck, the frustrated Hal is basically saying “I spent $214.8m and all I got was this lousy baseball team”.
(11) It produced 2,703kW hours (kWh) in its second full year (to 5 April), only 1% lower than the 2,730 kWh it produced in the first year, and that in spite of a lousy 2008 summer.
(12) Ed Balls has brushed off accusations that raising the top rate of tax to 50p is an anti-business move, as a second former minister from the last government accused the shadow chancellor of "lousy economics".
(13) The pay is lousy, the travel is brutal, the hours don’t work with being the primary parent, there’s no security, clear career path, sick-leave or holiday pay or maternity leave.
(14) If I dislike someone, it is all but impossible to conceal the fact, which is why I made a lousy waitress.
(15) But it has been criticised for providing a lousy deal for taxpayers by being too generous to the private contractors.
(16) We are in a lousy period because there are a lot of injuries,” he said.
(17) This isn't the first time Obama has turned in a lousy debate performance.
(18) In this two-hour near-monologue Bates played the fallen actor-hero forever ranting about being forced to work on tiny stages for lousy wages in front of philistines.
(19) lousiness, measures to detect the source of infection, respectively patients with louse-borne typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease.
(20) But to America’s unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.