hideousness


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Synonyms for hideousness

the quality or condition of being ugly

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dreadful ugliness

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Remained Balatta, who, from the time she found him and poked his blue eyes open to recrudescence of her grotesque female hideousness, had continued his adorer.
I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me.
Then George went at it, and knocked it into a shape, so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness, that he got frightened and threw away the mast.
'Tell me all about it again,' cried Peg, with a malicious relish of her old master's defeat, which made her natural hideousness something quite fearful; 'let's hear it all again, beginning at the beginning now, as if you'd never told me.
I imagine this repulsive aspect originates from the features being placed in positions, with respect to each other, somewhat proportional to those of the human face; and thus we obtain a scale of hideousness.
I hid my body with jeans and oversized hoodies, worried that anything form-fitting would reveal the hideousness that was my body.
(Badgely is particularly good at bringing forth the ugly nature that lurks beneath Joe's charm, delivering a subtle sense of hideousness wrapped in a pretty package.)
To the end of his life, he would never be seen without socks and shoes and would prefer shadow to light, faded days to sunny, for he was suspicious that sunlight might reveal him, in his hideousness, all too clearly.
There was the hideousness of the image of woman-as-broom; the
There were a few dodgy accents but, as an ensemble, the acting conveyed the gut-wrenching hideousness of war.
The bottom line is always this: Israel is blameless despite the hideousness of the act; it is superior and more civilised, and, according to Eldar's selective reporting, even Palestinians know this.
The bottom line is always this: Israel is blameless no matter the hideousness of the act; it is superior and more civilized, and, according to Eldar's selective reporting, even Palestinians know it.
The then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was quoted as saying: "Goyim kill goyim and they (the media) blame the Jews." The bottom line is always this: Israel is blameless no matter the hideousness of the act; it is superior, more civilized, and, according to Eldar's selective reporting, even Palestinians know it.
"Allah is forgiving, so let me sin" When reminded of repentance and the hideousness of disobedience, some people would respond that Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.