Ugly

[ug·ly]

Ugly means "extremely unattractive." On Halloween, some people wear ugly masks as part of their scary costumes.

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Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

Adjective S.
deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"

Adjective S.
provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"

Adjective S.
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clo

Adjective
displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly"

Adjective S.
morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"

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Adjective S.
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"


superl.
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

superl.
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

superl.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

n.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

v. t.
To make ugly.


Ugly

Ug"ly , a. [Compar. Uglier ; superl. Ugliest.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). . Cf. Awe.] 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
The ugly view of his deformed crimes.
Like the toad, ugly and venomous.
O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.] 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Ugly

Ug"ly , n. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

Ugly

Ug"ly, v. t. To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

To make ugly.

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Usage Examples

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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