Thesaurus / ugly
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You can’t have it both ways — call us and we come to do our job, but then if our job gets ugly, we’re the bad guys.
WHAT CAN MAYORS DO WHEN THE POLICE STOP DOING THEIR JOBS?BY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 3, 2020PROPUBLICAWe’re not sitting here in 10 years talking about this partisanship that is so ugly in this country.
FULL TRANSCRIPT: TOMI LAHREN ON ‘THE CARLOS WATSON SHOW’DANIEL MALLOYAUGUST 31, 2020OZYThe coronavirus is the immediate cause, as it has severely disrupted societies globally and brought with it isolation and death, while laying bare the ugly side of governments, companies and leaders.
FACEBOOK IN THE AGE OF REVOLTBRIAN MORRISSEYJULY 10, 2020DIGIDAYDepending on your taste, the monster group is either the prettiest or the ugliest object in all mathematics.
THE TWO FORMS OF MATHEMATICAL BEAUTYROBBERT DIJKGRAAFJUNE 16, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEWe’re living through what Yang calls “a war on normal people” — a war that Yang fears is getting uglier all the time.
WHY IS THIS MAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? (EP. 362 UPDATE)STEPHEN J. DUBNERDECEMBER 19, 2019FREAKONOMICSA gentleman expatiating upon the good looks of women, declared that he had never yet seen an ugly woman.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSOne Turkish Company, about a hundred strong, was making an ugly push within rifle shot of our ship.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONShe looked Mariequita up and down, from her ugly brown toes to her pretty black eyes, and back again.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINI was perfectly amazed to see how many little ugly habits I had to correct of which I had not been the least aware.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYHe would at once become stubborn and ugly, because he is not used to our quick, nervous, impatient ways.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEWORDS RELATED TO UGLY
- abominable
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- deplorable
- depressing
- dire
- disgusting
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- grody
- gross
- gruesome
- grungy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrific
- horrifying
- nasty
- offensive
- raunchy
- repulsive
- shocking
- stinking
- synthetic
- tough
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unsightly
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- angry
- atrocious
- bad
- baneful
- base
- beastly
- calamitous
- corrupt
- damnable
- depraved
- destructive
- disastrous
- execrable
- flagitious
- foul
- harmful
- hateful
- heinous
- hideous
- iniquitous
- injurious
- loathsome
- low
- maleficent
- malevolent
- malicious
- malignant
- nefarious
- no good
- obscene
- offensive
- pernicious
- poison
- rancorous
- reprobate
- repugnant
- repulsive
- revolting
- spiteful
- stinking
- ugly
- unpleasant
- unpropitious
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrathful
- wrong
- arduous
- dangerous
- deep
- difficult
- far-reaching
- fateful
- fell
- formidable
- grave
- grievous
- grim
- hard
- heavy
- important
- laborious
- major
- meaning business
- meaningful
- menacing
- momentous
- no joke
- no laughing matter
- of consequence
- operose
- out for blood
- playing hard ball
- pressing
- severe
- significant
- smoking
- sobering
- strenuous
- strictly business
- threatening
- tough
- ugly
- unamusing
- unhumorous
- urgent
- worrying
- adventurous
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- hazardous
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- venturesome
- venturous
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
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