hideosity

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I can't imagine your falling in love with a hideosity, no matter how worth loving she might be Under the circumstances, why bother to try It's no bother, and it's intensely interesting Canning advanced a step.

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  1. Hideous aspect; a very ugly object. [Rare.] There is a new thing of hideosity (I invent a vile word for a fact that is viler)—flats, warranted fireproof, have been run up adjacently within the last few weeks. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 344. That place of monstrosities and hideosities. Illustr. London News, XXIX. 359.

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  • If man had left no effort untried to pile hideosity on hideosity, flat ugliness on nauseous squalor, he had not been able to affect the arch of the heavens in its lucid blue, all smokes and vapours driven away by the spring winds; he had not been able to neutralize the vast views visible from the miners' sordid, one-storeyed dwellings, the panorama of hill and plain, of glistening water, towering peaks, and larch forests of emerald green amid the blue-Scotch pines and the black-green yews David in previous letters, looking into his father's budget, had shown him he could afford to keep a pony and a pony cart. —  Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
  • I can't imagine your falling in love with a hideosity, no matter how worth loving she might be Under the circumstances, why bother to try It's no bother, and it's intensely interesting Canning advanced a step. —  V. V.'s Eyes
  • I can't imagine your falling in love with a hideosity, no matter how worth loving she might be. " —  V. V.'s Eyes
  • He was trotted out, so to speak, in his skeleton, with his heart and lungs and muscles exposed to view in complex hideosity! —  The Iron Horse
  • A--- z, decidedly the ugliest man I ever beheld, with a hump on his back, and a smile of most portentous hideosity, yet celebrated for his _bonnes fortunes_; Señor de G--- a, Ex-Minister of the Treasury, extremely witty and agreeable, and with some celebrity as a dramatic writer; Count C--- a, formerly attached to the bedchamber in Spain, married to a pretty —  Life in Mexico
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