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adjective

Ugly adj. (compar. uglier; superl. ugliest)

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."

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. (Colloq. U. S.)

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

noun

Ugly n. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. (Colloq. Eng.)

verb

Ugly v. t. To make ugly. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Ugly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ugly" Quotes from Famous Books

... not a floating, half submerged log thrust up some short, stiff stumps of boughs, upon the points of which the man struck heavily and was not only hurt, but had his clothes impaled securely by one of the ugly spears, so that he hung in a helpless position, while the water's motion alternately lifted and submerged him, his arms beating ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... the matter is, that with a great many of us the attractive and desirable qualities of clothes depend entirely upon their relations to the current styles or fashions. We think everything unbecoming and ugly excepting those styles; and no matter how absurd the present fashion may be, there are not ten persons out of a thousand who, when they become used to them, do not admire them and follow them to the extent of ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 • Various

... "No one eats that sort of fish. Isn't he ugly?" and a determined thrust with her beach stick (a piece of bamboo salvaged from the drift wood), sent the dead monster out into ...

— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis

... thing would have seemed incredible. Because it was incredible we made no preparation for it. We would have been almost ashamed to prepare for it, as if we were suspicious of ourselves, our own comrades and neighbors! But the ugly and incredible thing has actually come about and we are without adequate federal laws to deal with it. I urge you to enact such laws at the earliest possible moment and feel that in doing so I am urging you to do nothing less than save the honor and self-respect of the nation. Such creatures ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... counties you will scarcely find so bleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor as Dardale Moss. The moor itself spreads north, south, east, and west, a great undulating sea ...

— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu

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