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Thesaurus: ugly

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

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  1. superl. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
  2. superl. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
  3. superl. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
  4. n. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
  5. v. t. To make ugly.
  6. adj. displeasing to the senses
  7. adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
  8. adj. morally reprehensible
  9. adj. provoking horror
  10. 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak. 2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.] 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley. To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.
  11. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq.Eng.] C. Kingsley.
  12. j:99/n:1 a. displeasing to the senses