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ADJECTIVE ugly COMPARATIVE uglier SUPERLATIVE ugliest
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ugly English

Meaning ugly meaning

What does ugly mean?
Definitions in simple English

ugly

If someone or something is ugly, it's not nice to look at. Hughie had the same ugly face as his father and brother.

ugly

displeasing to the senses an ugly face ugly furniture (= surly) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace a surly waiter an ugly frame of mind (= despicable, vile, slimy) morally reprehensible would do something as despicable as murder ugly crimes the vile development of slavery appalled them a slimy little liar (= atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible) provoking horror an atrocious automobile accident a frightful crime of decapitation an alarming, even horrifying, picture war is beyond all words horrible — Winston Churchill an ugly wound

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Simple sentences

Mary's not pretty, but she isn't ugly, either.
I'm ugly.
Tom is ugly, but he's really nice.
Tom used to be ugly.
I used to be ugly.
He isn't ugly.
This is going to be ugly.
This chair is ugly.
Some parts of this city are very ugly.
Between ourselves, the fat ugly witch is on a diet.
Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
An ugly man knocked on my door.
The architecture in this part of the city is ugly.
My house is old and ugly.
She was wearing an ugly dress.
This ugly yellow reminds me of the color of your bedsheets.
It's ugly, bright yellow and it doesn't go with anything. But at least you won't get run over in the dark!
This is ugly.
She wore a pink belt that was as ugly as it was expensive.
That's an ugly building, in my opinion.
This water has an ugly smell.
What should we do with this white elephant your aunt gave us? It's way too ugly to go on the wall.
The cellar is ugly, dark, and stinky.
His wife doesn't seem ugly to me.
Do you think I'm ugly?

Movie subtitles

No, there's an ugly, boring car on fire outside.
The Great Fire was a tragedy that has left an ugly scar.
You say that you are poor and sick but you are old and ugly as well - you are unworthy of life.
As if in a fog, he saw Dame Margarete, not old and ugly, but as a young smiling girl.
During the witchcraft era it was dangerous to be old and ugly, but it was not safe to be young and pretty either.
Put away the armlet, Kriemhild, it guards an ugly secret.
You wouldn't have these thoughts if you could see how ugly I am.
What does it mean to be ugly?
Hurting is ugly.
How ugly!
Telling Sophie she looked elegantly alluring in an ugly, vulgar.
I dreamt of those fellows last night- great ugly, black, inhuman chaps.
Because it was an ugly spectacle of waste.
Stirring up the whole rotten mess where life is hard, raw and ugly.
The ugly ones become slaves.
Just an ugly shadow between chin and mouth.
In the orgy's frenzy ugliness becomes beautiful, and beauty becomes ugly.
No. -She's ugly.
You know, most people think of death as a very ugly old man.
Gosh, isn't it ugly?
He's been drinking all day, and whenever he gets that way, he always gets ugly about Denny.
That would be an ugly way to win a pretty wife.
I feel I'm gonna do something ugly. There.!
And the boss's ugly mug on top of that.
Oh, the ugly words she must hear!
Clear off! I'm sick of your ugly mug!
You just harm one hair of my lady's head and that ugly face of yours will walk about with no neck under it.
He said he would marry her if she was as ugly as sin.
Hurry up and take your ugly face out of here.
She's too ugly.
But, Leon, this has the ugly sound of regeneration.
Witches are old and ugly.
Only bad witches are ugly.
Soon, I'll be an ugly sight.
It's really as ugly as it was before.
You're so ugly, you disgust me.
In an old chest of drawers, an old ugly one.
Now listen, all of you, I want you to take a good look at this ugly gorilla, because you're gonna see a lot of him.
Yes, sir. - Say, that's a pretty ugly cut on your lip.

News and current affairs

There have been just two ugly matches so far, full of fouls, nasty attacks, and unnecessary aggression, as well as numerous yellow and red cards: Italy vs. the US, and Portugal vs. the Netherlands.
It is a tragedy that a great democracy should have so ugly and vast a prison system corroding both its reputation and its polity.
Of course there is extremism in America--extremism as ugly as any that we have at home.
Now all of the choices that Egypt faces are ugly.
First, dictatorship itself is ugly and unacceptable; second, secular dictatorship excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system.
As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.
If you weed out most of the bad and the ugly, you end up picking more of the good apples - and do better than average.
Thus, adherence to specific rules replaces an expensive manager in choosing the good apples and avoiding the bad and ugly ones.
Russia exposes an ugly truth of our era: illiberal societies can grow just as fast - even faster - than open ones.
Lately, concerns about America's unsustainable fiscal deficits have, likewise, resulted in ugly political infighting, almost leading to a government shutdown.
In the endgame, the consequences of a policy based on illusions reared their ugly heads.
In its place, an ugly new form of national populism is emerging across the plain that extends between Bavaria and the Danube.
The second worry is that, as NATO and the EU expand, these ugly debates will infect relations within these international bodies.
The images many Europeans hold of America and Israel create the political climate for some very ugly bias.
Moreover, commodity booms frequently produce ugly politics in countries with weak institutions, leading to costly struggles for resource rents, which are rarely invested wisely.
But the next step in the argument - that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent - is much more uncertain.
Yet the country is in the throes of an ugly moral crisis.
Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.
The ugly truth is that the world's response to this crisis has been shaped by geopolitical interests, not the need to put an end to appalling human suffering.
This seems to be a more efficient - and politically more stable - form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations in Taiwan, South Korea, and the Philippines.
This seems to be a more efficient - and politically more stable - form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations of the type seen across the region.
Today, the question is no longer whether politics will become more populist and less internationalist; it is whether the consequences of that shift can be managed without turning ugly.
Each age, culture, and tradition defines what is an unacceptable body weight - unhealthy, ugly, or corrupt.
But I fear that change might cause a global economic crisis resulting from, say, an ugly unwinding of extravagant US borrowing trends.
The politics of division that bedevils Indian national politics is in ugly display in Gujarat.
The world should beware. Unless we break the ugly trends of big money in politics and rampant consumerism, we risk winning economic productivity at the price of our humanity.
Growing conflicts over history, territory, and maritime security, combined with an ugly resurgence of nationalism, risk triggering military confrontation, quite possibly through political miscalculation.
But, without Mandela's towering moral and political leadership, the transition would have been long, ugly, and bloody beyond measure.
The politics of division that bedevils Indian national politics is in ugly display in Gujarat. True raj dharma (good governance) creates the conditions for social trust and tolerance to flourish.
But it yields only the sum of the good, the bad, and the ugly, because it cannot tell you whether to buy advanced economies or emerging markets, and which countries within each group will do better.

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