01 a. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
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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.
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Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.[Colloq. U. S.]
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Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.[Colloq.]