Define the word uglier"Uglier" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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.
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The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser.
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Like the toad, ugly and venomous. --Shak.
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O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. --Shak.
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2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly
temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
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3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss;
as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
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ugly
adj 1: displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly
face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly" [ant: beautiful]
2: deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
3: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
"a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly]
4: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
appalled them" [syn: despicable, vile, unworthy]
5: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation
became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious,
minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
6: 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]
[also: ugliest, uglier]
"uglier" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
uglier
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