Sentence examples for rather hideous from inspiring English sources

George Sawle has officially corrected his youthful homosexuality by marrying a rather hideous bluestocking, Madeleine; they are both academics.

He got the landlord to repaint it so that the outside walls became the colour of fresh butter and its shutters a rather hideous green.

A friend of mine used to claim she couldn't write unless she was wearing a large, and, for what it's worth, rather hideous necklace that had belonged to her mother; another said she couldn't write unless she was wearing her grandfather's hunting shirt.

One nice part of Derby Day was that officials at Churchill Downs did not have to resort to all the candlepower in the rather hideous new light stanchions, which they have placed along the track in an attempt to save racing here in the emotional home of the sport.

On this day, for instance, he shows up for an interview he knew would touch on New York's difficult dealings with the world body wearing a rather hideous tie from the New York City Transit Museum, with a United Nations tie clip.

Taking a leaf out of the Stewart Lee playbook (and with a typically divisive quote from Lee included, comparing this German standup to Werner Herzog), this rather hideous image achieves what many fringe posters set out to do but surprisingly few manage: clearly defining the nature of the comedian and his show while also providing us with a genuinely funny visual at the same time.

Charlotte cites the case of a particular humble kitchen implement: "Never underestimate the pleasure that you get from a really well-designed potato-peeler, or rather how hideous a badly designed one is to use.

They hope for what Ms Regan calls "a new normal" that is merely bad, rather than hideous.

At school in the 1980s, we'd have killed for lipgloss of any kind and a part of me still envies those lucky girls whose mothers let them have stilettos from Freeman, Hardy and Willis rather than clumpy, hideous school shoes.

Pramila Tharu is 16 and has a two-year-old daughter, Prapti (it means "achievement", but the subtext, judging by her face, seems to be "unbelievable achievement over hideous odds", rather than "pride and joy").

The older you are, the filthier they get, until finally you wake up in a cloud of pain and nausea so hideous, you'd rather plunge your head into boiling Guinness than ever go through it again.