Citations:hideola
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English citations of hideola
Adjective: "(slang) hideous, ugly"
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- 1950, Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's", in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Other Stories, Vintage International (1993), →ISBN, page 83:
- He's friendly, he can laugh me out of the mean reds, only I don't have them much any more, except sometimes, and even then they're not so hideola that I gulp Seconal or have to haul myself to Tiffany's: […]
- 1989, Julie Burchill, Ambition, Bodley Head (1989), →ISBN, page 85:
- I heard on the grapevine he is absolutely hideola — even for a man. You know the type — makes Phil Collins look like Mel Gibson.
- 1995, Charlotte Vale Allen, Somebody's Baby, Mira Books (1995), →ISBN, page 110:
- They start wearing hideola designer clothes they think look good just because they cost a lot.
- 2001, Leslie Stella, Fat Bald Jeff, Grove Press (2001), →ISBN, page 97:
- Decades of witnessing their free-living experiments and hideola clothing have undoubtedly broken down Gran's resistance to disease.
- 2012, Miranda Hart, Is It Just Me?, Hodder & Stoughton (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Oh, don't – we've just been trying on outfits for the inter-school disco tomorrow night. Hideola.