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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UG'LY, a. [See Hack.[
Deformed; offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; hateful; as an ugly person; an ugly face.
O I have pass'd a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
Fellow, begone; I cannot bear thy sight; this news hath made thee a most ugly man.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" [ant: beautiful]
2: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly, ugly]
3: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched]
4: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (uglier; -est) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse uggligr, from uggr fear; akin to Old Norse ugga to fear Date: 13th century 1. frightful, dire 2. a. offensive to the sight ; hideous b. offensive or unpleasant to any sense 3. morally offensive or objectionable <corruption—the ugliest stain of all> 4. a. likely to cause inconvenience or discomfort <the ugly truth> b. surly, quarrelsome <an ugly disposition> <the crowd got ugly> • uglily adverb II. adverb Date: 14th century in an ugly manner <was acting ugly>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (uglier, ugliest) 1 unpleasing or repulsive to see or hear (an ugly scar; spoke with an ugly snarl). 2 unpleasantly suggestive; discreditable (ugly rumours are about). 3 threatening, dangerous (the sky has an ugly look). 4 morally repulsive; vile (ugly vices). Phrases and idioms: ugly customer an unpleasantly formidable person. ugly duckling a person who turns out to be beautiful or talented etc. against all expectations (with ref. to a cygnet in a brood of ducks in a tale by Andersen). Derivatives: uglily adv. ugliness n. Etymology: ME f. ON uggligr to be dreaded f. ugga to dread

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ugly Ug"ly, a. [Compar. Uglier; superl. Ugliest.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). ??. Cf. Awe.] 1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. --Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. --Shak. 2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.] 3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ugly Ug"ly, n. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] --C. Kingsley.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ugly Ug"ly, v. t. To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(uglier, ugliest) 1. If you say that someone or something is ugly, you mean that they are very unattractive and unpleasant to look at. ...an ugly little hat... She makes me feel dowdy and ugly. ? beautiful ADJ • ugliness ...the raw ugliness of his native city. ? beauty 2. If you refer to an event or situation as ugly, you mean that it is very unpleasant, usually because it involves violent or aggressive behaviour. There have been some ugly scenes... The confrontation turned ugly. ADJ • ugliness ...the subtlety and ugliness of sexual harassment. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp 3. to rear its ugly head: see head

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Unsightly, plain, homely, ordinary, ill-looking, ill-favored, unprepossessing, uncomely, unlovely. 2. Frightful, horrible, hideous, horrid, shocking, terrible, grewsome, loathsome, monstrous. 3. Cross, ill-tempered, cross-grained, spiteful, vicious, bad-tempered.

Moby Thesaurus

abominable, alarming, awkward, bad, bad-tempered, base, bearish, beautiless, bitchy, bitter, blemished, blotted, cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, corrupt, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, dangerous, dangersome, debased, defaced, degenerate, depraved, despicable, detestable, disadvantageous, disagreeable, discomforting, disfigured, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, disquieting, distasteful, dysphemistic, dysphemized, evil, excitable, execrable, explosive, feisty, filthy, foul, fractious, fraught with danger, ghastly, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, hazardous, heinous, hideous, homely, hostile, huffish, huffy, ill-favored, ill-tempered, immoral, inelegant, irascible, irritable, jeopardous, loathsome, marred, mean, menacing, mephitic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, ornery, parlous, periculous, perilous, perverse, perverted, plain, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, serious, short on looks, sickening, snappish, sordid, sour, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, spoiled, surly, testy, thankless, threatening, troublesome, uglified, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unalluring, unappealing, unappetizing, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncomfortable, undelectable, undelicious, undesirable, unengaging, unenjoyable, unhandsome, uninviting, unlikable, unlovely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unprepossessing, unpretty, unsavory, unsightly, untasteful, unwelcome, vile, waspish