I sat on my floor and stared at my carpet, which was a truly hideous shade of brown.

She was wearing a cheap polyester dress in hideous shades of brown and pink, and her hair looked wispy and unkempt.

This one had an impressive stone exterior, but the inside had been painted a hideous shade of pink, perhaps in a misguided attempt to make it cheerier.

His face turned a hideous shade of gray.

His flesh was beginning to darken around them, turning a hideous shade of purple--except in his fingers, which remained their natural bronze somehow.

But he talked as well of another plateau, also of the same hideous shade of green, that lies almost a day's flight beyond the first one.

The paint, a particularly hideous shade, was peeling badly and showed the gray beneath, the way an old, peeling scab shows the pasty skin underneath.

The bruise beneath his eye had changed to a hideous shade of yellow-green.

Downcast, I stared at the light of the night-table lamp with the hideous shade of intertwined plastic cords.

He pointed to a tall, angular woman who wore a dress that was a most hideous shade of yellow.