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Definition of Hideosities
1. hideosity [n] - See also: hideosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hideosities
Literary usage of Hideosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a Handbook of by William Gregory Wood Martin (1902)
"... exquisite taste for linear patterns and designs, could perpetrate the ghastly
hideosities they produced when they attempted to picture the human form. ..."
2. Holland House by Marie Henriette Norberte Liechtenstein (1874)
"The one heaps up gilding and modern hideosities, after the fashion of the foolish
woman who dyes her hair and tries to hide her wrinkles ; the other is like ..."
3. Woman in India by Mary Frances Billington (1895)
"Still I think nothing gave me greater satisfaction after the hideosities I had
seen in Madras and Calcutta as specimens of needlework than the altogether ..."
4. The Whirlpool of Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs by Archibald Ross Colquhoun, Ethel Maud Cookson Colquhoun (1907)
"At the present time the so-called " Secession " school is all-pervading, and
fills Vienna with hideosities not only on canvas but in iron, wood, and stone. ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... but they were expressed by a running film of pictures in his mind's eye,
morbidly prophetic of the hideosities before him. Finally he spoke aloud, ..."
6. The Expedition to the Philippines by Francis Davis Millet (1899)
"... we were offered chairs, of which there was a large ~ choice, from elaborately
carved and gilded hideosities to the simple Viennese bent-wood, ..."
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