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Examples
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“The purple bear,” Patch said, and accepted a hideous-looking teddy bear with matted purple fur.
Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010
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“The purple bear,” Patch said, and accepted a hideous-looking teddy bear with matted purple fur.
Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010
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Think of a contemporary version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in which an egotistical scientist's creation is not a hideous-looking monster but a well-mannered teenage girl who quotes Shakespeare, listens to Tom Petty and uses Facebook and YouTube.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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Next to the boy was a hideous-looking doll that also had a head full of green scales and nasty spiked teeth jutting from its elongated mouth.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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Think of a contemporary version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in which an egotistical scientist's creation is not a hideous-looking monster but a well-mannered teenage girl who quotes Shakespeare, listens to Tom Petty and uses Facebook and YouTube.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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The rest of the cast is uniformly excellent, though I took special delight in Ms. Bassham, who sings as well as she acts; John Kuntz and Robert Walsh, the drunken clowns; and Benjamin Evett, the company's artistic director, who does double duty as a hideous-looking Caliban.
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We rode towards the Jaffa Gate, outside of which were stalls of horses and donkeys, and a motley crowd, including lines of hideous-looking lepers.
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“It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its movements,” he wrote ungenerously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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“It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid and sluggish in its movements,” he wrote ungenerously.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid, and sluggish in its movements.
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