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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

... to an end, of a rhythm monotonous as the hoof-beats of a galloping horse, seemed very ugly to Iskender. How different from the delicious waywardness of Eastern airs, whose charm is all by the bye, in precious dawdlings and digressions! It revealed to him the mind of his Emir. Gradually, as he listened to it, ...

— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall

... unacknowledged daughter had this advantage over the younger, that about her there was a sweetness, a freshness, a quiet gaiety, and a bonhomie such as spring only from kindliness of disposition and pure unselfishness of heart. Had she been an ugly girl, though she might have lacked admirers, she could not have long remained without a lover. Being as handsome as Maud, she seemed calculated to rivet more attachments, while she made almost as many conquests. Between ...

— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

... to that bazaar with their cortege of infernal black eunuchs, strangers are told to move on briskly. I saw a bevy of about eight of these, with their aides-de-camp; but they were wrapped up, and looked just as vulgar and ugly as the other women, and were not, I suppose, of the most beautiful sort. The poor devils are allowed to come out, half-a-dozen times in the year, to spend their little wretched allowance of pocket-money ...

— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray

... action."—Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."—Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."—Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic—KTH]."—Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."—Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."—Id. "Whoever believeth ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said, "Jenny! Jenny!" The mother rose on being so addressed and ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

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