ugly
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When his time in Miami ended with his firing after three seasons and a 24-25 record, it turned ugly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
State Drive, an ugly black roadway, separates the Science Center and its new addition from the park’s Rose Garden, and serves as a sad connector to the rest of the park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
"This is an ugly and unattractive incident," Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC said.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Though I will say this for those ugly little pagers: At least you could hand one back.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
If Red could meet real trolls, she’d see that they were much nicer than Frederick and Bruno—and less ugly besides.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The tour comes as Britain faces pressure to confront uglier parts of its history, namely its central role in chattel slavery.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Lukas Hornicek: This would have been even uglier for the visitors were it not for Hornicek making fine saves to twice deny Bogle and also to foil Calvert-Lewin.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Eventually, the noise came back, and the national sense of shared shock and grief morphed into something uglier, hardier, and less focused.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But uglier nooks are frozen in time as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Yeah, no point in being uglier than usual.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
By far the ugliest commotion was a tweet from a political figure many of us were fortunate to be unfamiliar with, Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Can we touch on the name of your special “Ugly Baby”? Who’s the ugliest baby you’ve ever seen?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
"If you want to see how safe El Salvador is, go to the ugliest, darkest place, sit on a rock, and wait for dawn," the president boasts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
The pair clearly reinforce each other’s ugliest tendencies.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
“It’s like Halloween, only better. It’s the ugliest, gooshiest thing you ever saw, and I bet both of you wet your pants,” Tom said.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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