Napoleon; hideously ugly, with a monstrously disproportionate face, and a great clump for the lower- jaw, to express his tyrannical and obdurate nature.
It would be hideously unfair to condemn her to a life of comparative poverty.
Here at a martyr's tomb it was hideously out-of-place, and yet she did not see her way clear to rebuke.
Dear Isabella Gardner, Yes, I have delayed hideously to write to you, since receiving your note of many days ago.
Mon cher Ami, I have hideously delayed to acknowledge your so interesting letter from Paris, and now the manner of my response does little to repair the missing grace of my silence.
With which Isabel was grateful for the dimness of the room; she felt as if her face were hideously insincere.
Two men concealed behind the boat-carriage bellowed hideously through speaking trumpets, while all the others shouted and discharged their carabines in the air.
It was impossible for me to move; and I gave myself up for lost, as I noticed the wicked, fiendish expression upon the hideously painted face of the savage, and heard him mutter a malediction in Spanish through his closed teeth.
How hideously uncomfortable for her, poor little thing.
So this was going to be awkward, hideously awkward.
Then she burst out crying, and Johnny, sprawling in haste to the floor, howled hideously for company.
I've got my own young man coming, and he's hideously jealous.
This one consisted in a forehead so unusually and hideously lofty, as to have the appearance of a bonnet or crown of flesh superadded upon the natural head.
And hourly grew darker these shadows of similitude, and more full, and more definite, and more perplexing, and more hideously terrible in their aspect.
Once, a taxi-cab labouredhideously up the steep gradient of the avenue.
And then I followed the Emperor's rapt glance, and I saw the sailor lying on the floor, alive but hideously rent, and the royal torturers were at work all round him.
Frenchy set the drained glass down with a bang, and with a snake-like forward thrusting of the head leered hideously at the winner.
Many, too, perished at Blackfriars Bridge, or were hideously consumed in the flames that rose from the burning of Langdale's distilleries.
The reflection of this scarlet circle was hideously noticeable in his pupils.
But the sense of disgusted outrage changed all at once to horror, as, with a countenance still more hideously livid and twisted, his visitor slid helplessly from his seat and lay a huddling heap of clothes on the floor.
Only one individual had not forgotten it, and he was the Duke of Broadmorlands himself, in whose mind it remained hideously clear.
It is hideously like him; you can see it at the Elephant tavern.
As he told his story the Egyptian stood staring into vacancy, as though he saw it all, and the whites of his eyeballs gleamed more hideouslythan ever out of his swarthy face.
You have been--as you say--too hideously frightened, and you know there are dangers in wandering about unguided.
Because I was hideously wounded at the outset I threw it aside as done for.
I agreed with him in believing that the image in her mind of the man with the blue face, was in all probability something fantastically and hideously unlike the reality?
Beneath me, at my feet, opened the deepest valley I had noticed yet--with one first sign of the presence of Man scored hideously on the face of Nature, in the shape of a square brown patch of cleared and ploughed land on the grassy slope.
It was the same Indian that had halted Captain Wells the day previous; and he looked us over with a contemptuous sneer that curled his lips and transformed the whole expression of his hideously painted face.
Close beside me lay a dead warrior, his hideously painted face, with its wide, glaring, dead eyes, so fronting me that I had left only a narrow space through which to peer.
The inert weight of the horse stifled me so that I drew my short breath almost in sobs; nor did I dare venture upon the slightest attempt at release, hemmed about as I was by merciless fiends now hideously drunk with slaughter.
Thus he offers his face like a mirror to the moon's pallor, and showshideously that he is wounded in the neck.
The other, his fine fair hair untouched, was seated with his elbows on a cloth now red as a Turkey carpet, hideously attentive, his face besmeared with shining blood and full of foul marks.
Upon these obvious points Jerry concentrated a continuous stream of machine-gun fire; the casualties here were heaped up hideously in small masses and the blood from one man trickled over another.
The way had to be carefully chosen past shell-holes full of water, with here and there a slowly twirling body, a white face shining hideously in the damp night air.
Cruikshank, on the other hand, drew well and hideously not only Irish men, but Irish individuals.
And if the city be hideously aggressive, what word of excuse can be found for the outskirts, for the Italian and Chinese quarters, for the crude, new districts which fasten like limpets upon the formless mass of Chicago?
If they are not mere lumps, their ornament is hideouslyheavy and protrusive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hideously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: awfully; dreadfully; frightfully; grimly; hideously; horribly; horridly; terribly
