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The phrase "a hideous place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location that is extremely unpleasant or unattractive.
Example: "After visiting the abandoned factory, I can confidently say it was a hideous place, filled with decay and neglect."
Alternatives: "an awful place" or "a dreadful location".
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"It's a hideous place," he said.
It's harder to deny the existence of the straight world -- a hideous place full of politicians and bachelor parties and fun, fit professionals who live in terror of being insufficiently clean -- which claims you as a citizen if you're a woman with a boyfriend, regardless of your views on the gender binary.
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"They are in a hideous position," said one senior Tory.
Finally, Alice and Eric moved away from the hideous place with the smoky skies, that hopeless place whose own inhabitants could find no good word to say for it.
Both Tapley and Chuzzlewit get sick and nearly die, which changes Chuzzlewit for good: In the hideous solitude of that most hideous place, with Hope so far removed, Ambition quenched, and Death beside him rattling at the very door, reflection came, as in a plague-beleaguered town; and so he felt and knew the failing of his life, and saw distinctly what an ugly spot it was.
What kind of clueless homeowners could fail to notice such a hideous process taking place on their own front lawn?
And in Ahn Byeong-ki's Phone, slightly silly though it may be, phones are like the fridge in Ghostbusters, a hideous portal to a place no human should ever tread.
Even if the gift is a hideous vase, point out an ideal place where you can put it on display or to be more not keen on permanent display, suggest it will be just perfect for a flower that is only in blossom for a short season during the year.
But the dog had a "hideous expression with glass eyes that followed you wherever you walked" and after placing it next to the fireplace, "when guests entered the room they'd stop dead".
Yes, the place is surrounded by unsightly chain-link fencing, the water heater's broken and an occasional breeze brings a hideous smell from a nearby sewage treatment plant, but it's quiet enough to read.
This is a hideous problem.
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