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ugly
adjective as in unattractive
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animal, appalling, bad-looking, beastly, deformed, disfigured, foul, frightful, gross, hard-featured, homely, ill-favored, loathsome, misshapen, monstrous, not much to look at, plain, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unbeautiful, uncomely, uninviting, unlovely, unprepossessing
adjective as in unpleasant, disagreeable
adjective as in dangerous, threatening
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angry, bellicose, black, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, disagreeable, dour, fell, forbidding, formidable, glum, grave, grievous, major, malevolent, menacing, morose, obnoxious, pugnacious, quarrelsome, saturnine, scowling, spiteful, sullen, surly, treacherous, truculent, wicked
Example Sentences
It’s a stylistic choice to give the film the essence of a faded vintage photograph, but it’s also ugly as sin.
But the campaign would have been brutal and potentially quite ugly.
An ugly grin stretched across the shark’s face.
This year's Miss Universe in Thailand has been marred by ugly drama, with allegations of an insult to a beauty queen's intellect, a walkout by pageant contestants and a tearful tantrum by the host.
Burn has spoken of the need to "be a bit more ugly", referencing how his side were "well-known a few years ago for something-housery".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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