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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

... have wronged her, and cheated her, and humbugged her, and she knows it, and you know it, and I know it. These things may be all very well for a lark; but, when you pretend to make a serious matter of them, they look ugly. Confound it! ...

— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille

... village are of a different stamp to the drunkards of Finisterra. Those of my village never interfere with honest people. Vaya! how I hate that drunkard of Finisterra who brought you, he is so old and ugly; were it not for the love which I bear to the Senhor Alcalde, I would at once unlock the gate and bid you go forth, you and your servant, ...

— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... is N. L.—his initials; which I call him by, instead of the very ugly name his cruel godfathers and godmothers imposed upon him ...

— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

... had so augmented her native conceit and insolence as to make a rival unbearable. Though she was ugly and ill made, of a turbulent and obstinate temper, ungrateful and capricious, she deported herself as if she possessed all the graces of beauty, art, and genius, and regarded the allegiance of the public as her native ...

— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris

... are killed," Reuben said, "and we have all got some more or less ugly scratches. My left arm is useless for a time, I am afraid. A spear went right through it. I fear some of ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

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