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Definition of Ugly
Ugly
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

To make ugly.


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Ugly Quotations
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche


There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Eminem

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill Gates

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
Rodney Dangerfield

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
Rodney Dangerfield

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

More Ugly Quotations

Ugly Translations
ugly in Afrikaans is lelik
ugly in Danish is grim
ugly in Dutch is lelijk
ugly in French is vilain
ugly in Italian is laido
ugly in Latin is turpis
ugly in Norwegian is stygg, heslig
ugly in Portuguese is feio
ugly in Spanish is feo, abominable






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