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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
“If it goes beyond this, then it can get really ugly, but I don’t think it will,” he said.
“Our big ugly secret is that we have them, but at the same time, nobody knows what to do about them.”
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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