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UGLy

ugly - a 
displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" 

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Synonyms

awful, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, unseemly, unsightly, animal

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Examples

At one point she bursts into tears, insisting she looks ugly.

The prison building is as scarred and formidably ugly as the men it houses.

Both players squared up in an ugly confrontation that earned both a booking.

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Etymology

mid-13c., uglike "frightful or horrible in appearance," from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse uggligr "dreadful, fearful," from uggr "fear, apprehension, dread" (perhaps related to agg "strife, hate") + -ligr "-like" (see -ly (1)). Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" late 14c. Extended sense of "morally offensive" is attested from c. 1300; that of "ill-tempered" is from 1680s.

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