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English Dictionary: ugly	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ugly adj displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" Antonym(s): beautiful inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" Synonym(s): surly, ugly morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" Synonym(s): despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched 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" Synonym(s): atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ugly \Ug"ly\, n. A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ugly \Ug"ly\, v. t. To make ugly. [R.] --Richardson.