Example sentences for: hideously

How can you use “hideously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Its anti-hero, Hertz Grein, an erudite European refugee and serial deserter of women, turns his back on a secular life gone hideously awry and migrates to Israel, joining the most extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox he can find.

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.

  • Participants are still invited to find a sentence in an actual publication that best conveys hideously conspicuous consumption in 1999.

  • The liberal Independent on Sunday , in an editorial headlined "The stained presidency," said that "to anyone sane it was always obvious that impeachment was a hideously inappropriate and disproportionate punishment for President Clinton's 'low crimes and misdemeanours,' " but that didn't absolve the man.

  • They are also hideously expensive.


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