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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hideous/ˈhɪdiəs/

▶adjective extremely ugly.

■ extremely unpleasant.

– derivatives
hideously adverb,
hideousness noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. hidos, hideus, from hide, hisde ‘fear’.

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