单词 | ugly |
释义 | ug·ly I. 1. < inflicting a very ugly though not necessarily fatal wound — D.D.Martin > 2. a. (1) < ugly people > < an ugly color > < houses were cheaply constructed and ugly — Sherwood Anderson > (2) < an ugly line > b. < ugly sounds > < ugly smells > 3. < ugly crimes > < ugly habits > 4. a. < an ugly situation > < told him the ugly truth about himself — Eden Phillpotts > b. (1) < ugly weather > < an ugly cloud > (2) < an ugly sea > c. < an ugly temper > Synonyms: < an ugly sight he was, thin, stooping, bald, stiff-jointed, with an ulcered face patched with plasters — Robert Graves > < acres of ugly wooden tenement houses line the drab streets — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < an ugly story of low passion, delusion, and waking from delusion — George Eliot > hideous applies to what is extremely ugly and revolting, horrible, or odious < false eyebrows and false moustaches were stuck upon them, and their hideous countenances were all bloody and sweaty — Charles Dickens > < a yell of agony so appalling and hideous — Sheridan Le Fanu > < a hideous business, in which nearly all the humane alleviations of brutal violence, introduced and practiced in the days when professional armies fought for a dynasty or for a point of honor, were disregarded — W.R.Inge > ill-favored describes one with unpleasing, disagreeable, or unpleasant features but does not in general have more dire connotation < ill-favored and lean-fleshed — Gen 41:3 (Authorized Version) > unsightly, close to ugly, may apply to something unattractive that blemishes what might have been pleasing < unsightly hovels > < unsightly areas of houses quickly built and poorly kept — American Guide Series: Virginia > < an unsightly scar > II. chiefly dialect III. |
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