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UK
/ˈʌɡli/
]
[ US /ˈəɡɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈəɡɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
- So what better way of proving her wrong than sticking her personal Myspace pics all over his site, libellously accusing her of being a porn star, and calling her an ugly old slack-fannied man in drag although, even in the worst pics he could dig up, I'm quite sure she's a damn sight foxier than he ever will be. Archive 2009-08-01
- 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.
- So what better way of proving her wrong than sticking her personal Myspace pics all over his site, libellously accusing her of being a porn star, and calling her an ugly old slack-fannied man in drag although, even in the worst pics he could dig up, I'm quite sure she's a damn sight foxier than he ever will be. The Haters of Roissy 3 : Bad Obsession
- I can also detect in my writing my essential misanthropy rearing its ugly head.
- After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them.
- 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