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The phrase "a hideous time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period that was particularly unpleasant or distressing.
Example: "After the accident, she went through a hideous time, struggling to cope with the aftermath."
Alternatives: "a dreadful time" or "a terrible time".
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So. "A hideous time ahead".
All this, to me, adds up to a hideous time ahead, potentially, for older people," said another.
I'm guessing Shakespeare began to write A Midsummer Night's Dream after a hideous time wrestling with characters who would not come clear (e.g. family or bureaucrat landowners) and then he had this nightmarish mix, and came up flowing with this image; the world is crazy: milkmaid was screwing the donkey.
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Sure, it was a hideous, time-consuming dance with publicist to make anything happen.
It was an incredibly dark and hideous time of my life.
Imagine how many calories you'll burn doing that "happy dance" when you land that big deal, complete those hideous time sheets, or achieve a work goal?
It better rev up the learning curve because the United States plays Sweden at the same hideous time Friday.
Instead, they inflicted such a hideous half-time scoreline on the erstwhile champions of everything in England that the Tigers were reduced to playing for pride, which they did to some effect – for 10 minutes of the second half, anyway.
It's a hideous waste of time and extremely annoying for those around me.
Another track inspired in part by a hideous Tory, this time much loved national treasure, tax exile and easy lover, Phil Collins.
That bald head, those greasy, hairless cheeks, the swollen eyes that looked as though they'd only just now opened to the light for the first time — a hideous baby.
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