单词 | hideously |
释义 | hideously (hɪdiəsli ) 1. adverb [usually ADVERB adjective/-ed, oft ADVERB after verb] You use hideously to emphasize that something is very ugly or unattractive. [emphasis] Everything is hideously ugly. He has been left hideously disfigured by plastic surgery. 2. adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed] You can use hideously to emphasize that something is very unpleasant or unacceptable. [emphasis] ...a hideously complex program. ...a simple but undoubtedly hideously expensive black suit. Collocations: hideously expensive We know that care is hideously expensive and resources are limited. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The app store is hideously expensive in parts. The Sun (2013) Any alteration is a hideously expensive exercise. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Of course it is hideously expensive. Times, Sunday Times (2012) If you try building a million new homes in London it would be hideously expensive. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He also argued that he had been portrayed as hideously ugly. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It is a hideously ugly place, looming out of a vast plain next to majestic mountains. Times, Sunday Times (2012) They are anathema and, worse, hideously ugly. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There were endless buildings, he admitted, but they were hideously ugly. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State (2006) Translations: Chinese: 可怕地 Japanese: ひどく |
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