Word: hideous
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...Inside Albright's guest house, they walked us down a long corridor blessed with a thick, hideous lime green carpet, marble columns and enormous wood doors to a foyer with a large window facing the lake. An enormous, awful mural depicted a stormy, frothing sea crashing against striated rocks while rotund seagulls winged overhead. The next 15 minutes passed amusingly, with the Great Leader's protocol entourage shifting us from one location then to another in the desperate hope of making themselves comfortable with our presence in his midst...
...thank you very much for making all the arrangements this September for Vice Chairman Jo (Kim's Number 2) so he can meet the president of the U.S." Then the press was evicted, and repaired to what turned out to be a private movie screening room with more hideous furniture and snowflake-shaped lighting fixtures...
...After a "hideous" six months, Mary says, "I just couldn't stand it. My ability to focus went down so by Friday, I couldn't concentrate at all." When she made sales calls, the noise level was so high that potential clients would ask whether she was calling from the airport. Only after the company moved to new quarters, where she got a cubicle, did she decide to stay...
...wouldn't they? The leagues are looking for ways--any ways--to raise revenue, from putting a stand-up comedian on MNF to those hideous "turn-back-the-clock" days in baseball to the NBA's inane camera scheme...
...What did you say?" asks my wife, poking her head into the living room. "Oh." When she sees what I'm doing, she exits in a hurry because I'm not talking to her. I'm talking to Seaman, the hideous, fussy, cranky, mopey creature on my TV screen. My wife is beginning to suspect that I'm having an affair with it. I'm not sure she's wrong. Seaman ($49.95) is a truly bizarre new game for Dreamcast, Sega's plucky, we're-not-PlayStation home-gaming console--but I use the term game loosely...