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Webster 1913 Edition
Ugly
Ug′ly
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Uglier
; sup
erl.
Ugliest
.] [Icel.
uggligr
fearful, dreadful; uggr
fear (akin to ugga
to fear) + -ligr
(akin to E. -ly
, like
). [GREEK][GREEK]. 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. Shakespeare
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of
So full of
ugly
sights, of ghastly dreams. Shakespeare
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.]
Ug′ly
,Noun.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
[Colloq. Eng.]
C. Kingsley.
Ug′ly
,Verb.
T.
To make ugly.
[R.]
Richardson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ugly
UG'LY
,Adj.
Deformed; offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; hateful; as an ugly person; an ugly face.
O I have pass'd a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
Fellow, begone; I cannot bear thy sight; this news hath made thee a most ugly man.