Word: hideously
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...Since hideous facial lesions were first spotted on Tasmanian devils in 1996, the species has been in freefall. At current rates, it's predicted that one of Australia's most unusual animals could vanish from the wild within three years. Spread by biting during mating and one of only three communicable cancers ever seen, devil facial tumor disease has baffled scientists. And as it rages through 60% of the devils' habitat, introduced pests like feral cats and foxes have been taking the place of Tasmania's largest native predator...
Within months of the collapse of communism in 1989, hideous hybrid organizations including among their numbers newly unemployed secret policemen - together with the likes of Olympic wrestlers and weightlifters - seized effective control of former Warsaw Pact states like Bulgaria. What began as muscle-bound gangs, running the streets of Sofia and other cities, quickly graduated into networks that, for example, become the major importers of stolen cars from Western Europe...
...pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes” or “critics”—often angrily. Questions of methodology can lead to fierce infighting—which in turn can lead to hideous departmental nomenclature...
...1970s while studying history at university. He was later forced by the authorities to work as a house-painter because of his dissident activities. Tusk shared with Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders an antipathy to the government that he says was self-evident: "Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around...
...estate. As soon as Penelope turns 18, her mother hires a matchmaker and lines up a gaggle of eligible young aristocrats to woo her daughter and lift the curse. Despite Penelope’s cheerful nature and sizeable dowry, her would-be suitors all skedaddle once they see her hideous pig face. Max (James McAvoy, “Atonement”), a gambler enlisted to help get a photo of Penelope, develops a touching relationship with her, despite the fact that she is hidden behind a mirror during their courtship while he is trying to exploit her. They immediately click...