Unpleasing to the eye

Usage examples of ugly.

And this is the Absolute Ugly: an Ugly thing is something that has not been entirely mastered by pattern, that is by Reason, the Matter not yielding at all points and in all respects to Ideal-Form.

Farther east, the outer wall of the aisle, as also of the southern aisle, is almost covered with pompous and ugly monuments, few of them remarkable either for their design or for the fame of the persons to whom they were erected.

Amongst the shoals of smaller sharks there were at least two dozen of the ugly beasts that the islanders called Albacore shark.

One of the fat ugly Albacore sharks saw me as I slid down the dark cliff face, and he swerved towards me.

The absurd, ugly fang disappeared without a trace, and the albugo on his eye proved false.

You see a little ugly thing like an anatomized ape,--there, see,--he has just thrown down a chair, and, in stooping to pick it up, has almost fallen over the Dutch ambassadress,--that is Louis Armand, Prince of Conti.

Chinese red, no trace of that ugly sectoring that gives amberoid mock-ups away in oblique light.

The lump of amorphous flesh assumed another, longer shape: It became a cockroach, a hideously ugly, unrealistically large cockroach.

Pshing went out into an antechamber and returned with a Big Ugly named Ludwig Bieberback.

To strengthen it Lord Grimthorpe built buttresses, naturally following the division of the upper part of the walls, but thereby cutting across the arcading of the cloister walk in a most ugly fashion.

Then Oeljanov raised his right armthe one which ended in the ugly, stubby maw of a laser-sighted machine guntoward the camera.

Now she was Hushidh the Raveler, discussing the city of Basilica, not Shuya the schoolgirl, telling an ugly story about her tormentors.

Hovering over the scene was a bunch of particularly ugly buzzards, looking down upon the good guys and licking their beaky chops.

When the supper was done, the three ugly ladies each went apart to undress, while I took away the dishes, and my heroine began to write.

I was waited on by the ugly aunt, who begged me not to take a servant while I remained in her house, for by her account all servants were thieves.