2. Noun. Something hideous. ¹
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Definition of Hideosity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hideosity
Literary usage of Hideosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Memories by Edith Œnone Somerville (1918)
"of these artist-women, in their best clothes, and somewhere in the heart of the
throng was a tiny hideosity, an American, (who has a studio in which RB once ..."
2. Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1920)
"If man had left no effort untried to pile hideosity on hideosity, flat ugliness
on nauseous squalor, he had not been able to affect the arch of the heavens ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The clumsy ceremonial and sumptuous hideosity of the house of entertainment are
minutely and conscientiously described,— the costly serving of impossible ..."
4. Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843)
"Senor Az, decidedly the ugliest man I ever beheld, with a hump on his back, and
a smile of most portentous hideosity, ..."
5. The Medieval Empire by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1898)
"... after condemning the hideosity of the inhabitants, the rudeness and ferocity
of their manners, the rustic coarseness of their speech, the rarity of ..."
6. American Adventures: A Second Trip "Abroad at Home" by Julian Street (1917)
"... the congregation did not seize the opportunity to replace it with a hideosity
in lemon-yellow brick, but had the rare good sense to duplicate the old ..."
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