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Definition of Hideously
1. Adverb. In a hideous manner. "Her face was hideously disfigured after the accident"
Definition of Hideously
1. Adverb. In a hideous manner. ¹
2. Adverb. (context: degree) To an extreme degree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hideously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hideously
Literary usage of Hideously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians: Describing the Characteristics by James Lee Humfreville (1903)
"At the first opportunity he substituted himself for his little god and speedily
became the liquor holder. The gods were made as hideously ugly as ..."
2. The Nile Boat: Or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt by William Henry Bartlett (1852)
"... a muscle but when some little by-play of the dancers specially addressed to
themselves brought a hideously sensual smile across their pallid faces. ..."
3. A June Romance by Norman Gale (1894)
"Never mind, if they did not like it they must painfully lump it. "Don't be
hideously late. Good-night, Mr. Anderson. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"They bellowed and roared so hideously in the last affair that Russell was
reminded ,of Sebastopol. Can't yon imagine little Thiers listening to the noise, ..."
5. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"The giant roared hideously, but Tom had no more merey on him than a bear upon a
dog." If any- hody bnt Harry Fielding can write uf a battle in this way, ..."
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