UGLY

(VERY UNATTRACTIVE) [adjective] -ier, -iest - (of people, animals or things) extremely unattractiveI find a lot of modern architecture very ugly.Their house is full of ugly 1950s furniture.Yesterday in town I saw the ugliest baby I've ever seen in my life.The first thing that struck her when she came home was how ugly everyone looked in the street.She's got one of those really ugly dogs with a squashed face.I feel really fat and ugly at the moment.(US) An ugly American is an American visiting a foreign country who behaves in a way that offends people who live in that country.You haven't met her husband have you? He's a dreadful man and he's as ugly as sin (= very ugly)!An ugly duckling is someone who is not very attractive or popular as a very young person but who is likely to become so as he or she grows older.