ugly sister
allusive (also with capital initials)
noun
A person or thing considered unattractive, inferior, or unpleasant compared to others of the same type or group; an unpleasant or undesirable counterpart.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Frederick Boyle (b. 1841). With allusion to Cinderella's ugly and unpleasant stepsisters in the fairy tale Cinderella.
- sensationalistic
- sensationalize
- sensationally
- sense
- sense datum
- sense-experience
- sensei
- senseless
- senselessly
- senselessness
- sense of direction
- sense of humour
- sense of locality
- sense of proportion
- sense organ
- Sensex
- sensibility
- sensible
- sensibleness
- sensibly
- sensillum
- sensitise
- sensitive
- sensitively
- sensitiveness