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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
"This is going to be an incredible defensive match-up. Sometimes finals can be very ugly games and not always pretty games with loads of tries."
"It got ugly, somebody shouted out and didn't allow me to hit my tee shot," he recalled.
And a lack of consensus too about how we can set apart the unpleasant, offensive, ugly and hateful things said online from those that are genuinely threatening or dangerous.
These are ugly times for governments failing to give differently-abled people resources to thrive.
It may not be a great sign that I think this person is so ugly on the inside that it’s rotting his outside.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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