Crossword clues for ugliest
ugliest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ugly \Ug"ly\, a. [Compar. Uglier; superl. Ugliest.] [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). ??. Cf. Awe.]
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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.
--Shak.O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
--Shak. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: ugly)
WordNet
adj. displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly" [ant: beautiful]
deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly]
morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them" [syn: despicable, vile, unworthy]
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]
provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible]
See ugly
Usage examples of "ugliest".
I assumed that once Bondo was no longer the ugliest man in the world, the spell would end.
Blue Valley became a ghost town, one of the ugliest on earth, with not a single feature to redeem it, and Spade Larkin was forced to turn his back on the grandeur he had uncovered and drift along the streets of Denver, telling newcomers that he was the man, yessiree, he was the man that found Blue Valley, and for a beer he would explain how a newspaper clipping, a little clipping from a St.
And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression.
Zarathustra himself, however, led the ugliest man by the hand, that he might show him his night-world, and the great round moon, and the silvery water-falls near his cave.
There are even those who narrate that the ass then danced: for not in vain had the ugliest man previously given it wine to drink.
He was the ugliest human being the wizard had ever seen, or expected to see.
All I know for certain is that she cast a spell to make me the ugliest man in the world.
The fairy spell was that you'd be the ugliest man in the world -- is that right?
Princess might find herself living with the ugliest man in the world for a considerable time.
It's bad to be the ugliest man in the world, but it's not much of an improvement to become the most conceited.
A moment later the ugliest bird Kathy had ever seen erupted from the spot and shot out of the water, beating its dark wings.
It was a bird flying high above the river, and it was just about the ugliest if not quite the biggest bird he had ever seen.
Then they were where she was, and even to a chimaera she had the ugliest of human faces.
Now beside him, flying by his side, was the ugliest bird he had ever seen—an apparent cross between a swoosh and a buzvul.
Ugly things had taken place, perhaps the ugliest, and only he could keep them in balance.