pretty vs ugly
Definitions
adverb
- to certain extent or degree
adjective
- (used ironically) unexpectedly bad
- pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
Examples
I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool.
The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.
And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles.
Definitions
adjective
- provoking horror
- morally reprehensible
- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
- 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.
