What's the difference between hideous and terrible?

Hideous


Definition:

  • (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."

Terrible


Definition:

  • (a.) Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
  • (a.) Excessive; extreme; severe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another five years of Tory rule with all the terrible consequences that will have is bad enough.
  • (2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (3) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (4) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
  • (5) We have to balance the risk posed to the environment by DDT with the terrible impact this virus is having on the unborn.” Britain is unlikely to be affected because Aedes aegypti cannot survive the cold of UK winters.
  • (6) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
  • (7) I myself spent years – years – in a terrible kind of politically correct phase where I travelled to Nicaragua and called it “Niquragua” to observe the Sandinista revolution firsthand.
  • (8) If neighbouring Arab states put pressure on the rebel groups, the result could be a ceasefire and an end to the terrible violence.
  • (9) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
  • (10) One of the terrible ironies of the Iraq War is that President Bush used the threat of nuclear terrorism to invade a country that had no active nuclear program.
  • (11) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
  • (12) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
  • (13) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
  • (14) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
  • (15) ​The experience of his wife's prolonged and terrible illness had not changed his mind, Inge said, but had made him understand, "at a heart and gut level" what the implications of a law on assisted suicide would be.
  • (16) This time he looked like a nodding dog in the back of a car that's been in a terrible crash.
  • (17) Michaels' Ms brainwave did not take root as quickly as she hoped - "It was terribly frustrating, because no one wanted to hear about it.
  • (18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
  • (19) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
  • (20) This is a terrible government, and the Tories are deeply divided.