Ugly
adjective
Not pleasant to look at; not attractive.
He was wearing an ugly shirt.
Often appears as...
- ugly face
- ugly situation
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Disapproving
adjective
Unpleasant or repulsive in a moral sense.
He revealed the ugly side of his personality
Often appears as...
- ugly behavior
- ugly incident
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Disapproving
adjective
Threatening or ominous.
An ugly storm is brewing
Often appears as...
- ugly forecast
- ugly turn
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Unfavorable
adjective
Not pleasant to look at; not attractive.
He was wearing an ugly shirt.
Often appears as...
- ugly face
- ugly situation
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Disapproving
adjective
Unpleasant or repulsive in a moral sense.
He revealed the ugly side of his personality
Often appears as...
- ugly behavior
- ugly incident
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Threatening or ominous.
An ugly storm is brewing
Often appears as...
- ugly forecast
- ugly turn
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Unfavorable
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Appearance
Often used to describe things or people that are not visually appealing.
The building's design is pretty ugly.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Opinion
Remember, calling something ugly can be subjective and vary between people.
I think that style of painting is ugly.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Appearance
Often used to describe things or people that are not visually appealing.
The building's design is pretty ugly.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Opinion
Remember, calling something ugly can be subjective and vary between people.
I think that style of painting is ugly.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Appearance
Often used to describe things or people that are not visually appealing.
The building's design is pretty ugly.
Pro Tip 2/2Subjective Opinion
Remember, calling something ugly can be subjective and vary between people.
I think that style of painting is ugly.
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"To This Day" ... for...
So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize; it does. She was eight years old, our first day of grade three when she got called ugly. We both got moved to the back of class
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How we conquered the...
he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician, he realized that she was right, women who got cowpox didn't develop
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Stories of Exploration...
flying an airplane around and using it to teach kids about science and math studying the ugliest creatures on the planet studying the oceans and for people like me at this age finding out where do humans live the longest this is an urgent question at this stage in my life
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Why I'm done trying to...
Guys, this is real. And I'm just scratching the surface here, because the deeper we go, the uglier it gets, I guarantee you. I don't have time to get into porn and violence against women or the split of domestic duties or the gender pay gap.
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Why the buildings of the...
that's as muscly and sinewy as the animals it's designed to observe. And it means that a building doesn't have to be beautiful to be lovable, like this ugly little building in Spain, where the architects dug a hole, packed it with hay,
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Wolves Developent into...
growing like an ugly overfed brat too healthy to slow down too young and ambitious to care about what it destroys along the way in the Caramba Seaton had plenty of time to think about America's dwindling wildlife only a few years
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Thoughts on humanity,...
Everything I said took a new meaning. Everything I did -- good, bad, ugly -- was there for the world to comment upon and judge. As a matter of fact, everything I didn't say or do also met with the same fate. Four years ago,
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Peter van Uhm: Why I...
Ladies and gentlemen, looking at this gun, we are confronted with the ugly side of the human mind. Every day I hope that politicians, diplomats, development workers can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope.
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What really matters at...
who were ready to go, ready to die. Not because they had found some final peace or transcendence, but because they were so repulsed by what their lives had become -- in a word, cut off, or ugly.
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If I don’t ask, I don’t...
where it's just you and the phone when I do and said now close your eyes and picture me naked I don't know I'm fat that it's an ugly sight a picture me naked and now picture
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"To This Day" ... for...
So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize; it does. She was eight years old, our first day of grade three when she got called ugly. We both got moved to the back of class
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How we conquered the...
he heard a dairy maid say, "I shall never have smallpox, for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly, pockmarked face." Cowpox is a skin disease that resembles smallpox and infects cows. Later on, as a physician, he realized that she was right, women who got cowpox didn't develop
Video examples
Stories of Exploration...
flying an airplane around and using it to teach kids about science and math studying the ugliest creatures on the planet studying the oceans and for people like me at this age finding out where do humans live the longest this is an urgent question at this stage in my life
Video examples
Why I'm done trying to...
Guys, this is real. And I'm just scratching the surface here, because the deeper we go, the uglier it gets, I guarantee you. I don't have time to get into porn and violence against women or the split of domestic duties or the gender pay gap.
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Why the buildings of the...
that's as muscly and sinewy as the animals it's designed to observe. And it means that a building doesn't have to be beautiful to be lovable, like this ugly little building in Spain, where the architects dug a hole, packed it with hay,
Video examples
Wolves Developent into...
growing like an ugly overfed brat too healthy to slow down too young and ambitious to care about what it destroys along the way in the Caramba Seaton had plenty of time to think about America's dwindling wildlife only a few years
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
Everything I said took a new meaning. Everything I did -- good, bad, ugly -- was there for the world to comment upon and judge. As a matter of fact, everything I didn't say or do also met with the same fate. Four years ago,
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Peter van Uhm: Why I...
Ladies and gentlemen, looking at this gun, we are confronted with the ugly side of the human mind. Every day I hope that politicians, diplomats, development workers can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope.
Video examples
What really matters at...
who were ready to go, ready to die. Not because they had found some final peace or transcendence, but because they were so repulsed by what their lives had become -- in a word, cut off, or ugly.
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If I don’t ask, I don’t...
where it's just you and the phone when I do and said now close your eyes and picture me naked I don't know I'm fat that it's an ugly sight a picture me naked and now picture
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
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Shakira
Musician
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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Ice Cube
American Musician
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
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Ben Affleck
American Actor
There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
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Natasha Rothwell
American Actress
I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.
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Julie Plec
American Producer
Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.
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Kamaru Usman
Nigerian Athlete
I'm not the ugliest guy in the world.
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Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
Very ugly things were said about me.
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Jean Anouilh
French Playwright
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
Quote examples
Shakira
Musician
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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Ice Cube
American Musician
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
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Ben Affleck
American Actor
There's a lot of crazy, weird people out there. It's an ugly world.
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Natasha Rothwell
American Actress
I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.
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Julie Plec
American Producer
Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.
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Kamaru Usman
Nigerian Athlete
I'm not the ugliest guy in the world.
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Carly Fiorina
American Businesswoman
Very ugly things were said about me.
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Jean Anouilh
French Playwright
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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