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hideousness

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hid·e·ous  (hd-s)
adj.
1. Repulsive, especially to the sight; revoltingly ugly. See Synonyms at ugly.
2. Offensive to moral sensibilities; despicable.
[Middle English, variant of hidous, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French hide, hisde, fear, possibly of Germanic origin.]
hide·osi·ty (-s-t) n.
hide·ous·ly adv.
hide·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.hideousness - dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness
ugliness - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses
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It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it.
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These new institutions, these justices of the peace, rural councils, what hideousness it all is
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Not even the water she brought him in a forest-leaf, and the ancient and half-putrid chunk of roast pig, could redeem in the slightest the grotesque hideousness of her.
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