| 释义 |
hideosity|hɪdiːˈɒsɪtɪ|
[f. hideous + -ity, after curiosity, etc. ME. had hidouste, OF. hideuseté.]
Hideousness; concr. an embodiment of hideousness, a very ugly object.
1807C. Wilmot Let. 15 May in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) ii. 245 Nothing before our eyes but Minerals & Fossils & Animals in every State of Hideosity. 1841C. Ridley Lett. (1958) 69 Never in my life have I seen such frightful hideosities of beds as they are. 1856Illustr. Lond. News 11 Oct. 359/1 Trafalgar-square, that place of monstrosities and hideosities. 1884Jaunt in Junk xv. 243 Mere grotesque hideosity of carving. 1897United Serv. Mag. 277 Laying bare, in spite of its repulsive hideosity..the whited sepulchre. 1970New Yorker 12 Sept. 56/1 Don't speak to me of caravans... Such hideosities. |