ugh

Example Sentences

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“Nobody would look at that and say, ugh, you’re going to have a lot of defaults,” Ostrover said.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

“There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

I mean, 45 minutes to an hour, stirring angry — ugh.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“I think I worried that it would be too limiting,… that the arrow would point bright neon lights at this thing in a way that people would be like, ugh, boring.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Sandy makes an ugh sound as he yanks a foot out of the mud beside me.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender