Sentence examples for hideous about from inspiring English sources

When things go wrong, they look at each other, study the situation carefully and then slowly, calmly do something really hideous about it.

Or the festering stews of Ankh-Morpork, capital of the empire and a compendium of all that was hideous about city life before we discovered hygiene and street lighting?

The bombs used in the attack on the Boston Marathon were, as has become clear, frighteningly easy to construct; but there remains something hideous about the use of weapons that are, to other people, barely weapons at all, but household or kitchen implements.

Sure, the show celebrates everything that's hideous about the world but three episodes in, I've completely drunk the Kool-Aid.

But there is something especially hideous about the targeting, whether intentional or not, of young people ― especially young people leaving a space that was supposed to belong to them, at least for a night.

"Among the most prominent was that of appearing to see spirits of a hideous description moving about in the ceiling of the room".

Hideous stories about ageing parents who are worried sick about their disabled child's future; parents having repeatedly to prove their worthiness for necessary allowances and help, trying to keep track of their benefits status.

In 1998, he returned to the screen in "Hideous Kinky," about the spiritual awakening of a young woman (Kate Winslet).

"She identified me when she outed herself and then further damaged me by contacting my superiors at the RAF and feeding them hideous lies about me," he said.

A few months later, a cook named Kate Burnham came forward with hideous allegations about her experience as an employee at the Toronto restaurant Weslodge.

What academic Richard Rorty took to be the most hideous thing about Orwell's vision of 1984 was that it was a world in which human solidarity was made impossible.