For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)
These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things. . . like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.