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What does hideous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hideous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Extremely or shockingly ugly.
  2. Having a very unpleasant or frightening sound
  3. Hateful; shocking.
  4. Morally offensive; shocking; detestable.
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When we entered, our ears were assaulted by the hideous muzak dripping from the sound system.
He experienced the best and the worst of Pipeline with a perfect 10, a handful of hideous wipeouts and broken surfboards.
There are shopping malls as hideous as any in Orange County, and an autoroute, the A63, that rumbles with trucks headed north from Spain.
You wondered if your dream meant that the light-heartedness and joy of your life was being killed off by the hideous situation.
The massive spending by all nations on armaments and hideous weapons like cluster bombs, land mines, etc, must be questioned.
A group of fruit trees in this work becomes a hideous metaphor for a world out of joint.

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