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beautiful

Definitions

adjective

  1. (of weather) highly enjoyable
  2. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

Examples

Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful.

The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful.

Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar 

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ugly

Definitions

adjective

  1. provoking horror
  2. morally reprehensible
  3. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
  4. displeasing to the senses

Examples

Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.

Heat the oil in a casserole dish, ideally one that fits the meat snugly (or use a large frying pan and then transfer the joint to a casserole dish).

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.

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