ugly /ˈʌɡli 
/ ▸ adjective ( uglier, ugliest)
1 unpleasant or repulsive, especially in appearance: people in school always told me I was ugly
the ugly sound of a fire alarm.
2 involving or likely to involve violence or other unpleasantness: the mood in the room turned ugly.
▪ unpleasantly suggestive; causing disquiet: ugly rumours persisted that there had been a cover-up.
▪ morally repugnant: racism and its most ugly manifestations, racial attacks and harassment.
– ORIGIN Middle English: from Old Norse uggligr ‘to be dreaded’, from ugga ‘to dread’.
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