ugly
IPA: ˈʌgɫi
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
- (slang) An ugly person or thing.
- (logistics, informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
verb
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
adjective
- Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
- (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
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Examples of "ugly" in Sentences
- The picture is ugly.
- They use ugly modish Americanisms.
- She is frightened by the ugly building.
- It's scary to the mind and ugly to the eye.
- At the moment, the daydream is more of the ugly kind.
- I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular.
- Adam Zeis, an editor at a website called Crackberry.com, was wearing what he called an ugly Christmas sweater T-shirt.
- "But I _wasn't_ in fun, you ugly, naughty, _ugly_ boy," retorted Hoodie, by this time most evidently losing her temper.
- 'Well, I don't know what you call ugly,' he answered, 'but if you had seen her stare, you would have thought her ugly enough!
- Must say the present head of Telstra would go under the title ugly american type but American's don't have a lock on arrogance.
- The prime minister objected to what he called ugly remarks when Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Turkey had meddled in Iraq's affairs.
- He testified that he worked on Sept. 11, 2001, and continued working at Ground Zero for months while engaged in what he called an "ugly" custody battle for his 14-year-old daughter.
- The fact that art is constantly using what we call the ugly as well as what we call the commonplace, and turning both these into new forms of beauty, is a fact that considerably complicates the situation.
- III.v. 62 (305, 9) [Foal is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer] [W: being found] The sense of the received reading is not fairly represented; it is, _The ugly seem most ugly, when, _ though _ugly, they are scoffers.
- The defense secretary's Conservative Party supporters fought back Wednesday against what they called an ugly smear campaign against the 50-year-old Fox, who married in 2005, with his former flatmate Werritty serving as best man.
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