hideawfulous
adj.— «That is, until I got a look at the proposed sculpture. It’s hideous. Maybe hideous is a bad word. How about a new word like, hideawfulous.» —“In eye of this beholder, new sculpture is ‘hideawfulous’” by John Gaps III Des Moines Register (Iowa) Nov. 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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