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.

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  • adverb In an ugly manner.

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Examples

  • 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

  • β€œAnd you think we shall be satisfied with your bare word?” he said uglily.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Kinealy and Archie Sensenbrenner, rather uglily oblivious.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • 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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