adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ugly/nasty rumour (= a rumour about something bad )
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Ugly rumours persisted that there had been a cover-up.
an ugly/unsightly scar (= unattractive )
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The ugly scar spoiled and distorted his face.
Ugly Betty
ugly mug
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Something scared him. Probably your ugly mug !
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Late Victorian Holocausts is as ugly as it is compelling.
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What was beautiful they regard as ugly , and the other way around.
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Suffering, commonly seen as ugly and distorting, stirred emotions in him that brought the word beauty to his lips.
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The beetle: As ugly as the toad; he wanted to marry Thumbelina.
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The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
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He came to the door looking twice as ugly as usual.
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Only some one as ugly as I am could love me.
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Photography, he protested, has unfortunately introduced into art a misconception of perspective which is as ugly as it is false.
rather
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Some of the shapes are really rather ugly although the decoration is usually charming in its detail.
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Mr Thomlinson had made a rather ugly rockery out of it.
really
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It looked really ugly and beautiful at the same time.
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Because it could have been really ugly .
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That was when everything could have got really ugly if the man hadn't sided with her.
so
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One did not need to know why the ovens were so ugly , so very ugly.
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They looked so ugly to her and it all reminded her of Jack.
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But it's so ugly I can't actually bring myself to drive it.
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Perhaps we are fond of her just because she is so ugly and utilitarian.
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Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them.
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She was so ugly I took a picture of her every chance I got.
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He was so clever ... and so ugly .
too
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But was he really too ugly , as some said, to be anything but a saint?
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The roads may have iced over, the rain may be too ugly to face.
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But he rejected her: too ugly .
very
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They are remarkably functional workhorses, two stroke, solid and very ugly .
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I was very ugly , very very ugly.
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So I obeyed John's order and approached his armchair, thinking how very ugly his face was.
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I was very ugly , very very ugly.
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My new sister is a disgusting colour and very ugly .
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Slung over my shoulder, I carry a new, very large, very ugly black handbag.
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Fists were thrown and for a while things began to get very ugly .
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So the princess began to think that he really enjoyed being a monster and very ugly .
■ NOUN
duckling
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It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.
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An ugly duckling , like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
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But Beryl is an ugly duckling rapidly turning into a beautiful swan ... all through the hard work of recovering mental patients.
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However, roses are not swans, and all too often ugly ducklings remain ugly ducklings.
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The loco is a bit of an ugly duckling .
face
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Abdullahi was a small, slender, restless man with quick, vigilant eyes and an engagingly ugly face .
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The soldier whose ugly face I had glimpsed on wakening punched me in the mouth.
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I recognised them, for Hughie had the same ugly face as his father and brother.
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He's got a squashed-up ugly face like a baboon.
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Jinkwa stared down at the creature's ugly face .
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No one who had seen Canon Grindal's ugly face and then heard his beautiful chord-like voice could ever forget.
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He could not live in the outside world, because of his terrible, ugly face .
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I'd know that ugly face anywhere.
head
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Clubs lost their authority and control of players when money reared its ugly head .
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In addition, politics has reared its ugly head , all institutional efforts not withstanding.
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The spectre of restraint of trade rears its ugly head .
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It rears its ugly head every time a similar shooting occurs at another school.
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Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often.
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Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.
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Another problem will begin to raise its ugly head , in the form of parasites.
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At Hubbard Woods Elementary an even more graphic example of the troubled world our children face reared its ugly head .
incident
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Nevertheless, there had been some ugly incidents .
man
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He was a stock irritant, an ugly man in a shabby dressing gown over a stained shirt.
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Shallow men , ugly men, stupid men.
mug
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Rubbing his cheekbones in slow circles, he winces with pain at the sight of his own ugly mug .
scene
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There would, I imagine, have been an ugly scene .
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Police were anxious to avoid the ugly scenes when the two boys made their first appearance in court nine days ago.
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The ugly scenes scared the holiday crowds away.
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There were a number of ugly scenes behind the Southend goal before police stepped in.
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But there were more ugly scenes last night.
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Any photographer that caught their eye were pushed away with threats, and ugly scenes between these rioters and other protestors ensued.
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He once confronted three baiters but after an ugly scene with them he advises people not to do the same.
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But Aspinall's goal sparked ugly scenes .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as miserable/ugly/guilty as sin
raise its (ugly) head
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And here's where the question of spec lists raises its head.
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Another problem will begin to raise its ugly head, in the form of parasites.
rear its ugly head
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At Hubbard Woods Elementary an even more graphic example of the troubled world our children face reared its ugly head.
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Clubs lost their authority and control of players when money reared its ugly head.
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Hence the double bind attached to being appropriately feminine rears its ugly head again.
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In addition, politics has reared its ugly head, all institutional efforts not withstanding.
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It rears its ugly head every time a similar shooting occurs at another school.
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One which is likely to rear its ugly head continually during this piece.
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The spectre of restraint of trade rears its ugly head.
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Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an ugly chair
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An ugly little man came over and offered to buy me a drink.
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That's a really ugly picture of me.
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The room was bare except for a few pieces of ugly furniture
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They're in an ugly fight over who will get the children.
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We hated our uncle. He was fat and ugly , with tiny eyes and a long, pointed nose.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For an ugly moment I had been convinced she had guessed the real reason for my avid professional interest in Bill Francis.
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I glanced down to see that a well-aimed egg had turned my blouse into an ugly mess.
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It was on Sunday that the scenes turned ugly .
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Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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Use very small stitches to suture, otherwise an ugly scar may result.
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Where there were sentimental witnesses the old, the ugly and the inept always came out best.