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Examples
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Chandeliers of plastic “iclicles” have been around for decades and are hedious.
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An hour had scarcely elapsed when over thirty Indians painted in the most fantastic and hedious manner came in.
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear Theresa Fulford Delaney 1881
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A match was lighted and I saw two of the most hedious looking Indians looking over and saying where is the _Monias_ squaw, meaning the white women.
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear Theresa Fulford Delaney 1881
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It is hard to form an idea of how hedious they appear when the red, blue, green and white feathers deck the head, the body a deep orange or bright yellow and the features tatooed in all fantastic forms.
Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear Theresa Fulford Delaney 1881
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Oh! what a hedious monster; his eye balls are like red hot coals of fire, and his tongue forked like that of a serpent; see, see, he moves.
The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845
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He had now screwed himself up into the smallest possible compass in the further corner of the bed, his eye balls still glaring from beneath the pillow, and every instant schreeching in the most hedious manner, and now darting from one side of the bed to the other, declaring that it was full of these terrible reptiles.
The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is not politics to liberals, this is WAR and all they care about is defeating conservatives, BOTTOM LINE, so I approach it the same way and all I care about is defeating that hedious evil we call liberalism.
Taking the Public Out of NPR - Jonah Goldberg - Townhall Conservative 2010
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Ibrahim and his sordid "16 September 2008 Federal Government take over" and now his ongoing personal hedious sexual deviant criminal case.
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To have two such hedious crimes happen to one family is to much to bare.
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To have two such hedious crimes happen to one family is to much to bare.
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