ugly
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Bruesewitz piled on, telling Carlson that Fine “has tweeted some ugly things, really ugly things,” and he promoted Fine’s primary challenger, celebrity gambler Dan Bilzerian.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"I cannot describe it. I mean, it looks ugly, really ugly," the 69-year-old said, peering through its corroding gates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The prettiest team at the tournament was learning to win ugly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The U.S. soccer team showed it still can’t punch past top World Cup talent during an ugly knockout loss to Belgium, but it hopes it helped grow the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
He was terrifyingly ugly and smelled even worse.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Here’s where silver gets uglier than rare earths.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
A grim season got even uglier for the Las Vegas Raiders when they lost 31-0 to the Philadelphia Eagles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Yet that doesn’t mean that all defensive sectors are behaving as might be expected when sentiment is turning uglier.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
They are getting pushed around out there and it’s only going to get uglier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
And I would cry more to make my face uglier.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
“It was probably the ugliest environment that I’ve been in,” said one respondent.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The pair clearly reinforce each other’s ugliest tendencies.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
The site was designed by a young team led by architect Norman Engleback and was voted "Britain's ugliest building" by readers of the Daily Mail when it first opened in October 1967.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
And from one day to the next, Golding went from defensive coordinator to picking up the pieces of one of the ugliest divorces college football has ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“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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