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.]
1.
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.
2.
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.
[Colloq. U. S.]
3.
Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.
[Colloq.]
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Ug"ly (?), n.
A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.
[Colloq. Eng.]
C. Kingsley.
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Ug"ly, v. t.
To make ugly.
[R.]
Richardson.
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