Hideous
Tragic
Tragic adjective - Of a kind to cause great distress.
Hideous and tragic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hideous" instead an adjective "Tragic".
Nearby Words: tragically, tragical
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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He's a tragic character, sure, being a severely schizophrenic victim of hideous parental abuse, but he's still a colossal asshole from the moment we meet him.
Source: Literature / The Langoliers -
They may be represented both as noble, proud, tragic and free warrior poets; or as hideous, treacherous and murderous "malevos", opposing to fair, gentle and well mannered "european" heroes.
Source: Gaucho -
He's a Tragic Hero and a subversion of this trope, but it doesn't keep his human mistress from regarding his true form as hideous.
Source: Hellish Pupils
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