[
UK
/ˈʌɡli/
]
[ US /ˈəɡɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈəɡɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
provoking horror
an ugly wound
an atrocious automobile accident
an alarming, even horrifying, picture
a frightful crime of decapitation
war is beyond all words horrible -
morally reprehensible
the vile development of slavery appalled them
a slimy little liar
would do something as despicable as murder
ugly crimes -
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
a surly waiter
an ugly frame of mind -
displeasing to the senses
ugly furniture
an ugly face
How To Use ugly In A Sentence
- 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).
- 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. The Scarlet Letter
- Such quackeries do not make old people young and ugly girls pretty.
- She has written a beautiful book about something horrifying and ugly. Times, Sunday Times
- My vampires are actually ugly and do the freakiest thing: they eat people. Vampire Fashion Week!
- They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
- But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
- In fact, they are downright ugly. Times, Sunday Times