ugly

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ugly/ˈʌɡli/
adjective (uglier, ugliest)
  • 1 unpleasant or repulsive in appearance.
  • 2 involving or likely to involve violence or other unpleasantness: an ugly scene.
– derivatives
uglification noun,
uglify verb (uglifies, uglifying, uglified),
uglily adverb,
ugliness noun.
– origin ME: from ON uggligr ‘to be dreaded’, from ugga ‘to dread’.
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