Sekirov Dictionary

ugly

/ˈʌɡli/

adjective 5
noun 4
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 5

adjective5

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not nice to look at, the opposite of beautiful
- the ugly view of his deformed crimes — 1590
Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
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(figurative) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
- an ugly customer, wound or rumor
- an ugly story that was being noised about in newsrooms across the nation
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Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
- He played an ugly trick on us.
(Southern-US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

noun4

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(slang) Ugliness.
- I want your ugly / I want your disease. — 2009
(slang) An ugly person or thing.
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(informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- Non-standard products (abnormal or 'uglies'): many distribution operations are designed to cater for standard palletized products. — 2022
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(informal, old-fashioned) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
- […] camp-stools, telescopes, poetry-books, blue uglies, red petticoats, and parasols of every hue. — 1857

verb1

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(nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).
- I move noiselessly, eat my food carefully without uglying the dining table with its remnants, fold my bedsheets in neat rectangles and place them on the bed in perfect symmetry. — 2011

forms

uglied · uglying · uglies · uglier · ugliest

Phrases with ugly

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