Sentence examples for Quite hideous from inspiring English sources

The other swimmers lined up to give him a guard of honour and the president of Fina, the sport's governing body, presented him with a – quite hideous – trophy inscribed "The greatest Olympic athlete of all time".

"Kings of Pastry" is a tribute to French artistry and tradition, but the sad truth is that even many of those exquisitely wrought buffet displays and wedding cakes are quite hideous — a pileup of birds of paradise, modernist sculptures and flowers — that represent the triumph of technique over good taste.

That brown case is rather hideous though.

They liked Hairspray, Cry-Baby and Polyester, the ones that weren't quite as hideous.

Let's hope the play on the field is not quite as hideous as the trophy itself, which was an abomination.

There was no hiding from the world the scale of the carnage then – but only now, when it is possible for the first time for a non-military outsider to peer into the classified fine grain of a day in the life of the war, is it apparent quite how hideous the attrition was becoming, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Few are good, even fewer are great, and most of what I see when it comes to couples' post-split relationships is quite honestly, hideous.

Stephan Proudfoot Bird-about-town Stephan is one of those not-quite-as-hideous brown ones.

It is quite beautiful: the world is hideous, menacing and going down the drain, and Miller sings.

He was even entrusted to bowl the 20th over with the (hideous) trophy not quite secured and surely a heart beating out of his chest.

At the age of just 11 Malala had, quite remarkably, begun to chronicle the hideous rule of the Taliban in her home district of Swat in northern Pakistan, in a diary that was carried by the BBC's Urdu service.