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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

I can also detect in my writing my essential misanthropy rearing its ugly head.

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).

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beautiful

Definitions

adjective

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

Examples

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

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.

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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