Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ugly manner; with deformity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an ugly manner; with deformity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ugly manner.
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Examples
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We ought not be surprised that unrequited loves and passions have uglily reared their heads at this moment.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010
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βAnd you think we shall be satisfied with your bare word?β he said uglily.
Kangaroo 2004
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Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, β by sucking a gaspipe?
Mrs. Dalloway 2003
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Of course, Buddle could not give any sort of opinion upon a case which he had not seen; but it described uglily, and the major consulted in broken hints, with an uneasy wink or two, about a flight to Boulogne.
Wylder's Hand 2003
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There is a discomfort in such proceedings, a reasonable, a metaphysical coldness, uglily contrasting in theory with the genial warmth which a little more heart would infuse into them.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The area where the French created a wasteland around their three fortresses has been rebuilt, alas uglily, but enough of the old city remains and it well repays a visit.
Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983
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The area where the French created a wasteland around their three fortresses has been rebuilt, alas uglily, but enough of the old city remains and it well repays a visit.
Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983
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At that very moment another gray object streaked its way down through the heavens, whirling uglily.
Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser
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Kinealy and Archie Sensenbrenner, rather uglily oblivious.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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Mr. Pelz wound his way through an overcrowded huddle of furniture that was gloomily, uglily utilitarian.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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