HIDEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hideously mean? 

• HIDEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb HIDEOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a hideous manner

  Familiarity information: HIDEOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIDEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hideous manner

Synonyms:

hideously; horridly; monstrously

Context example:

her face was hideously disfigured after the accident

Pertainym:

hideous (so extremely ugly as to be terrifying)

 Context examples 

“Oh, my eyes and limbs!” he then cried, peeping hideously out of the shop, after a long pause, “will you go for twopence more?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I could have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)