Infinitive complement

• contemplate: It is the option of last resort with consequences too hideous to contemplate.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: A medley of noises made the peaceful night hideous.

Modifies a noun

• repast: The girl has swooned, and the vampyre is at his hideous repast!

• matrimony: And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

• monstrosity: I was ready to pay up until I saw the hideous monstrosity they presented me with.

• monster: The ball was actually the thing - Lucy's hideous monster - the Green Angel.

• limbo: I'm now stuck in that hideous limbo between having applied for a great volunteer position and waiting to hear back from them.

• beast: A child is transformed into a hideous beast by a strange beggar.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: RD: I believe natural selection represents a truly hideous sum total of misery.

• pretty: You can see the pretty hideous wrong angle his shin.

• rather: His vanity is obvious, and culminates in his rather hideous ginger wig.

• quite: The costumes for the women are quite hideous knee length pleated skirts: a reminder of school uniform.

• too: It is the option of last resort with consequences too hideous to contemplate.

• so: Why did the mirrors in shops always make you look so hideous?

Used with adjective complement

• look: To not put too fine a point on it, some of these items looked hideous to my untrained eye.

• make: My nights are made hideous with their torments, temptations and foul suggestions.

• sound: The program has been attacked by Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, who said: " This program sounds hideous.

• render: In some areas the night is rendered hideous by the bullfrogs - or the tapping of some nocturnal bird or beast.