Awesome and Hideous

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Awesome adjective - Causing wonder or astonishment.

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Hideous and awesome are semantically related in terrible topic. In some cases you can use "Hideous" instead an adjective "Awesome".

Nearby Word: awesomely

Hideous adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Awesome and hideous are semantically related in terrible topic. Sometimes you can use "Awesome" instead an adjective "Hideous".

Nearby Words: hide, hideously

Note that "Hair of the Dog" (having a little more of the same stuff that caused your problem in the first place) does not count as an example of this trope, considering that it's not hideous at all, and is in fact mildly awesome.

Source: Hideous Hangover Cure
Padua has observed that the whole point of Steampunk is the awesome clothes....but the specific decade in which the comic is set was a decade of hideous fashion, and Lovelace and Babbage were probably two of the worst-dressed people in it.

Source: Webcomic / The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Black, however, is the king of this, with a hideous number of cards that allow one to do quite a lot of awesome things, but cost you creatures, land, life, cards in hand, cards in graveyard (a viable resource for black, so not something to be sneezed at), or something else.

Source: Powered by a Forsaken Child

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