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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
“Going through an ugly divorce while I was in the public eye as a Christian artist — rocks would have been thrown at me,” he says.
It knowingly acknowledges classic westerns including John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’ and Sergio Leone’s ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.
As the attractively re-faced “Guy,” the film’s protagonist cannot escape this theme of sarcastic destiny, and the melody reveals itself as a symbol of the real monster in the story: society and the ugly human heart.
We’d delineate that a bit from his plan for “mass deportation” because, despite some surveys showing substantial support for this in the abstract, the ugly stories and images that could emerge from the execution of that plan could sharply turn public opinion back the other way.
For the third year in a row, Jay Leno is bouncing back after an ugly injury.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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