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ugly

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1. ugly - Noun

2. ugly - Adjective

3. ugly - Verb

5. ugly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

To make ugly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. Karl Kraus

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche

Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly enough to frighten away. Portuguese Proverb

No woman is ugly if she is well dressed. Portuguese Proverb

Better to kiss an ugly woman than to lick yourself. Burundi Proverb

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